Improving Wifi signal in another building

[Dxnx]

Hey, I’m trying to boost our signal from the main house to another building.

 

Currently the main house has the BT smart hub router and I have a TPlink extender in the other building but the wifi signal is terrible because its too far away. So I plan to run a cat6 ethernet cable round the house and into the 2nd building. But do I need to connect the cable into another router or just a extender. My current extender only has 1 ethernet port which isn’t any good as I would like to be able to be hard wired into my pc as well so I need some suggestions as to what to buy so I can do that, thank you

[Average Nerd]

You can connect the ethernet cable from your router to a ethernet switch in the other building, to which you can then connect a wireless access point as well as your PC.

[saintlouisbagels]

a.  Into another router which is then set up as an access point (AP).

b.  Into an ethernet hub (unmanaged switch) that connects to both the TPLink Extender and any other nearby devices you want to hardwire.

[ChrisLoudon]

23 minutes ago, Dxnx said:

Hey, I’m trying to boost our signal from the main house to another building.

 

Currently the main house has the BT smart hub router and I have a TPlink extender in the other building but the wifi signal is terrible because its too far away. So I plan to run a cat6 ethernet cable round the house and into the 2nd building. But do I need to connect the cable into another router or just a extender. My current extender only has 1 ethernet port which isn’t any good as I would like to be able to be hard wired into my pc as well so I need some suggestions as to what to buy so I can do that, thank you

Hi buddy,

 

I have the same setup. Main house with multiple bedrooms, kitchen and living area plus a separate annex with bedroom and bathroom.

 

I ran a single length of Cat6 from the main Sky Router to the annex and from within the annex I have a small 6 port switch that hard wires my SkyQ mini box, Smart TV and Amazon Eero Wifi Extender.

 

As a general rule, I'm not a fan of wireless and will hardwire with Cat6 unless its a phone, laptop or an IoT device which is why I have Cat6 runs into every room in the house. Fortunately, I recently renovated the entire property so routing Cat6 was easy.

 

The only thing to be careful about is you should NEVER wire network across 2 buildings that are on different power supplies. If the outbuilding you speak of is powered by the same mains supply as the house then your fine.