Internet/TV to Garage Help

[DIY Rookie]

So, I have a TV mounted in my garage. My Garage is disconnected from my house and from the back of my house to the front of my garage is roughly 50-60 feet. My TV is mounted in the back left corner of my garage where my work area is so another 22 feet. So it's roughly 70-80 feet from the back of my house where the WIFI extender is plugged in to my TV. I don't have cable access out to it. My TV has ROKU so I just connect to that. My problem is I can usually get a connection, but every now and then I get a lot of interruption and don't get a connection.

Looking for advice to get a good signal out to my TV in the gargage. Should I get another WIFI extender and plug it in to the front of my garage hoping that the 2 WIFI connectors will give me a good connection?

Looking for advice or what some of you may be doing who don't have cable ran out to your garage. Thanks for your help.

 

[BearsFan315]

jsut did similar on mine, but i ran coax to the shop for the cable aspect.

as for wifi i used a repeater in the garage closest to the house. just remember that it is a repeater !! so if the signal it gets is only 10MBps then it can only repeat it at 10MBps even if the main connection is 100MBps. look at is a copy machine it copies what is put in. garbage in garbage out, with a little loss.

could use the free app from google play or apple place and see what the signal strength is in various locations. electronics, walls, etc can block/mess signal.

mount your main router high on the wall above the electronics for less interference and further distance.

weather also plays with the signal and strength. on a good clear day i have full strength on a nasty day i have about 75% signal.

from my main router to my repeater on garage wall is about 50ft

other option is if you run the coax then you can put in a router as an access point and get full internet strength.

 

[DIY Rookie]

jsut did similar on mine, but i ran coax to the shop for the cable aspect.

as for wifi i used a repeater in the garage closest to the house. just remember that it is a repeater !! so if the signal it gets is only 10MBps then it can only repeat it at 10MBps even if the main connection is 100MBps. look at is a copy machine it copies what is put in. garbage in garbage out, with a little loss.

could use the free app from google play or apple place and see what the signal strength is in various locations. electronics, walls, etc can block/mess signal.

mount your main router high on the wall above the electronics for less interference and further distance.

weather also plays with the signal and strength. on a good clear day i have full strength on a nasty day i have about 75% signal.

from my main router to my repeater on garage wall is about 50ft

other option is if you run the coax then you can put in a router as an access point and get full internet strength.

Or I guess I just need to find a way to run a cable wire out to my garage huh?

 

[inphx]

Yes if you can make the run to the garage with "direct bury" cat6 and put a wifi hotspot out there, A spool of 500ft can be found for under $50 on ebay

 

[tros]

We puled a cable from the house under ground to ares.its 130 feet from the dish to the garage it went up to the 2nd floor .No problems at all.

 

[bdbecker]

I've been dealing with the same issue - detached garage, Roku, WiFi extender works most of the time, but not all of the time. Is your garage power pulled from your house panel? If so you might consider one of these:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HSQAIQU/?tag=atomicindus08-20

I just installed mine a few days ago, but so far it seems to have fixed the issue.

 

[matt_i]

For a streaming TV, in my opinion the absolute most reliable you can do is a hardwired Cat 5. The pain is in running the cable in the first place, but then you get paid back by years of simple copper wire service vs. relying on circuit board hardware.

 

[thickhead]

Solved the same issue with a Ubiquiti Unifi AC Pro mounted on the back of the house facing the garage. Came with the power over ethernet injector so I just ran a 50’ CAT6 ethernet cable to it from my cable router/modem. I now have well over 100mb speed even at the back corner of my detached garage were it used to be 5mb. Set up with the iOS app on my phone was super simple and not sure it even took 5 minutes.

 

[DIY Rookie]

Yes if you can make the run to the garage with "direct bury" cat6 and put a wifi hotspot out there, A spool of 500ft can be found for under $50 on ebay

What is "Direct Bury?" And I have plenty of wire. and why would I need a hotspot if I run cable wire? couldn't I just use a cable box at that point?

 

[DIY Rookie]

I've been dealing with the same issue - detached garage, Roku, WiFi extender works most of the time, but not all of the time. Is your garage power pulled from your house panel? If so you might consider one of these:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HSQAIQU/?tag=atomicindus08-20

I just installed mine a few days ago, but so far it seems to have fixed the issue.

Yes, actually my power to the garage is from my breaker with a 20 amp. I will check that out. Ty

 

[NETexas]

Yes, actually my power to the garage is from my breaker with a 20 amp. I will check that out. Ty

I use a similar one to get WiFi from router to security camera’s DVR that are in a hall closet on a two story house. No way to hard wire. Works pretty good most of the time.


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[thickhead]

I had the TPLink powerline setup for a couple years, finally dumped it for the Unifi one I mentioned above. The difference between the two is amazing - not even close.

 

[NUTTSGT]

Or I guess I just need to find a way to run a cable wire out to my garage huh?

I dug and buried a 3/4" pvc conduit from back corner of my house garage to my garage. I ran Cat5 from the home router to a switch/hub in the garage. PC and Roku Ultra are hardwired.

 

[rnixon]

I use a D-Link Powerline the link below explains it. The best part is it's less than $20. 00howtogeek.com/210895

 

[ScaldedDog]

What cable service do you have? If Dish, their regular Joey's run fine with no cable connection, just Ethernet. I don't think they support it, but it works perfectly.

To get Ethernet to my metal barn, I used Ubiquiti 5ghz bridge nodes on the side of the house and side of the barn, then ran a shielded Cat6 cable through the barn wall to a switch. The TV, cable box and receiver all connect to the switch, as does an AP. This setup is a good bit more reliable than my WISP internet connection, with zero drops in months of use.

Wired is always best, of course, but good wireless gear can work very well.

Mark

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[Showkey]

Coax cable means another cable box.

Wifi Extenders often drop speed and or bandwidth.

WiFi mesh system can solve the problem for a few $100 no digging, no wire, install and setup can be done in 15 minutes.......With full speed, full bandwidth, automatic covers 2.4 and 5.0.

 

[My Old Tools]

Google mesh worked for me. Great bandwidth.

 

[Ck1]

I use a 3 station google mesh for the same application. Works great. Completely transparent transitioning with the mesh

 

[Doug]

Yes if you can make the run to the garage with "direct bury" cat6 and put a wifi hotspot out there, A spool of 500ft can be found for under $50 on ebay

Exactly what I did after trying all kinds of wireless methods with mixed success. I used about 90' of Cat 6 and a 10.00 used router set up as an access point.

 

[firebirdparts]

There are a lot of really long ubiquiti threads here if you search. you can beam wifi a long way. I asked some guys at work for advice and they suggested using mesh, and that works too. 50 feet is not terribly far for mesh, but you'd have to be close to the other building, I think.

 

[RyanDan]

First, running ethernet cable is a great idea if you dont mind a little digging. I would not run Cat5 cable. Run atleast cat 6 or even cat 7 designed for direct bury. They will be a much more robust cable, almost like coaxial.

A powerline unit should work well, or you could do a point to point extender. One on the outside of the house and another on the garage directed at each other. These are normally done to span several hundred feet so it might be over kill. Aside from a powerline, a really strong router or mess routers should get you out 80 feet if placed on the wall closest to the garage. One issue you'll have is router traffic is two way. So you might have a high powered router sending the signal, but if you have a cheap access point/ repeater receiving it, its not going to be powerfull enough to talk back. I hear this a lot when people complain about good routers not expanding their coverage in thier house, when in reality their phone just cant send the sign that far back.