Need Wifi to Shop
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stl_commuter
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I also did the Linksys Velop system for my similar setup. I have a metal 30x50 pole barn that sits 140 ft behind my home.
Placed a Velop node in a window facing the barn and another node in the barn window facing the house -155 ft from window to window.
I get a full set of coverage bars in the barn and my barn office. I run a couple Echos powering sound systems, a tv, my work Mac and several security cams off this system. We have issues with internet service reliability in my rural location but the Velop system itself is great.
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Placed a Velop node in a window facing the barn and another node in the barn window facing the house -155 ft from window to window.
I get a full set of coverage bars in the barn and my barn office. I run a couple Echos powering sound systems, a tv, my work Mac and several security cams off this system. We have issues with internet service reliability in my rural location but the Velop system itself is great.
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PhantomEB
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Better half got us upgraded to the 600 package along with Wi-Fi extenders yesterday.
Hoping we can push WiFi stronger into the basement as well out into the yard and garage. Then my camera system is back online.
Hoping we can push WiFi stronger into the basement as well out into the yard and garage. Then my camera system is back online.
Extenders, access points, Mesh systems, boosters, repeaters, nodes, routers. . . cat 5, cat 6, wireless, LANs, WANs. . .there was less jargon-filled lingo in the 30 page mortgage refinance I just signed, and I didn't understand that either.
My IT dept won't lend me what I want, and my internet provider has not gotten back to me in a week.
I've decided that placing a wireless access point (WAP) in the garage is the trick to assure quality signals. I will plug in a cat 6 cable into my existing router, snake the line to the outside conduit (ugly but temporary), run the cat 6 through my conduit that terminates inside the garage, and plug it in to a cheap WAP in the garage. I may, or may not, use waterproof cat 6 cable at this point, if using standard cat 6 the whole system will cost about $50-75. The WAP below is about $25, 150' of the waterproof cat 6 is $45.
My IT dept won't lend me what I want, and my internet provider has not gotten back to me in a week.
I've decided that placing a wireless access point (WAP) in the garage is the trick to assure quality signals. I will plug in a cat 6 cable into my existing router, snake the line to the outside conduit (ugly but temporary), run the cat 6 through my conduit that terminates inside the garage, and plug it in to a cheap WAP in the garage. I may, or may not, use waterproof cat 6 cable at this point, if using standard cat 6 the whole system will cost about $50-75. The WAP below is about $25, 150' of the waterproof cat 6 is $45.