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Takoren
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I am hoping someone can help me out here.

 

I own a few acres that has a road running through it, on one side I have my house and on the other I have a workshop and a couple of trailers for when family visits.  I would like to share the wifi with the trailers from my house, running a wire isn't really an option as I would need to bore under the road to do so and that's cost prohibitive.  What I would like to do is setup a couple of wifi transmitters, one at my house and on the other side of the road for the trailers/shop.

 

Could anyone recommend some hardware solutions to accomplish this?  I am fairly tech savvy and can do some basic networking if needed.

 

The distance needed to broadcast is 50 to 75 yards but would like to cover up to 100 yards if possible.

 

Any help is appreciated.

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You should get a Yagi Antenna and a wifi router that is capable of accepting external antennas and call it a day. Or a wireless access point that connects to your router.

Yagi antennas are powerful directional antennas.  Plus they're reasonably cheap all things considered. roughly 30$ each sometimes 15$ if you search on ebay. So you can have multiple ones to extend the range/coverage.

 

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1 hour ago, Takoren said:

The distance needed to broadcast is 50 to 75 yards but would like to cover up to 100 yards if possible.

 

Any help is appreciated.

Get a pair of Unifi Loco M5ACs and call it a day. There are tutorials available for setting them up as a wireless bridge. The catch (maybe) being that they're passive PoE powered (but you can buy PoE+ adapters).

 

28 minutes ago, SImoHayha said:

Yagi antennas are powerful directional antennas.  Plus they're reasonably cheap all things considered.

That seems like overkill/tinkeryish for a few hundred feet...

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On 1/25/2024 at 8:48 PM, SImoHayha said:

You should get a Yagi Antenna and a wifi router that is capable of accepting external antennas and call it a day. Or a wireless access point that connects to your router.

Yagi antennas are powerful directional antennas.  Plus they're reasonably cheap all things considered. roughly 30$ each sometimes 15$ if you search on ebay. So you can have multiple ones to extend the range/coverage.

 

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I used this for years, but its a bad solution today given they are usually only 2.4Ghz and modern WiFi is designed around 2x2 MIMO so you'd need two of them for best performance.

 

WiFi is also not really designed with outdoors in mind, it can pickup a lot more interference than indoors.

 

Far better to have a proper outdoor point to point network setup which is designed to deal with outdoor conditions, has a better signal strength due to not having the loss from the long antenna cable, will work at 5Ghz (or possibly 60Ghz)  and have a normal AP connected to the one in the other property.

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On 1/25/2024 at 3:04 PM, Takoren said:

Any help is appreciated.

Look into point-to-point (PtP) or point-to-multipoint (PtMP) wireless bridging.

 

Tutorials can be found on CrossTalk Solution's Youtube channel.

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