TV in my shop

[99SVT]

Ok, my shop is about 120ft from the house, and am wanting to put a TV in there.

We have satellite in the house, and was wondering if there was any way to get it to the shop.

Can a person run some coax that far, and still have a good signal?

I do know I would have to get another box for out there, just trying to avoid having to mount another dish.

Also, we have wireless internet in the house... is there any way to "project" it out to the shop?

 

[pgreen]

I am in about the same boat...almost the same distance too.

I added a dish to my shop a few years ago. I previously used a portable dish on a tripod, but got sick of having to reposition it every time the wife mowed the lawn (yep... I said that right).

When I got my HD dish installed, I had the guy mount my old dish to the shop. He was happy to do it, only took him like 5 minutes. I would have easily done it myself, but he offered...

For wireless internet, it will depend on where in the house the wireless router is. I mounted mine in a downstairs window facing the shop. Internet is no problem now. Not in the window, it was sketchy.

 

[DHS]

Ok, my shop is about 120ft from the house, and am wanting to put a TV in there.

We have satellite in the house, and was wondering if there was any way to get it to the shop.

Can a person run some coax that far, and still have a good signal?

I do know I would have to get another box for out there, just trying to avoid having to mount another dish.

Also, we have wireless internet in the house... is there any way to "project" it out to the shop?

I ran mine (100') and I have had no problems. I even have a splice in the middle because I did not have one piece long enough.

 

[Cryptic1911]

120ft should be fine for that kind of run, just use rg6 cable. As far as the internet, yeah you can rig up antennas to do a point to point wifi link, but you might as well just run some cat6 cable along with the rg6 and then have an rj45 wall jack for the computer in the shop

 

[ket-tek]

120ft should be fine for that kind of run, just use rg6 cable. As far as the internet, yeah you can rig up antennas to do a point to point wifi link, but you might as well just run some cat6 cable along with the rg6 and then have an rj45 wall jack for the computer in the shop

best way for sure.

If you do go wireless, if you router in the house has antenna you can unscrew you can screw in a direction outdoor antenna to it and either put it in attic of on the side of your house, hanging out under the soffit or something. If your laptop won't pick up the antenna garage still, add a Wifi Bridge/Repeater out there and mount it aimed at the house antenna and with pick it up reboost it out for the garage area.

If you don't already have an N router in the house now, start with that, N will increase quite a bit on its own.

The wifi products out there have gotten much better and lots cheaper in the past couple years. Many options to get you there.

 

[rvr6000]

Yep....you're good to about 300' with Cat5 if I remember correctly.

 

[go_n_low88]

Go wireless HDMI for tv and wireless for internet. You can buy a booster if signal is low.

 

[38 Special]

I use this in my barn where I could not get my wifi previously. Now, I get it perfect. I put it on the roof and aimed it toward the wireless router.

http://cgi.ebay.com/High-Gain-dBi-Yagi-Antenna-Built-In-adaptor-USB-200mw-/400159809402?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_2&hash=item5d2b621f7a

 

[ket-tek]

Can a person run some coax that far, and still have a good signal?

Sure you can run RG6 quad shield quite far, I've done a few 200-300 ft runs that worked fine.

You can also get sat signal inline boosters if needed. Like a inline cable amp but you can't use a cable amp to do it.. Must be for sat..

 

[e-tek]

I ran Coax to my shop - about 100ft of wire from the dish. Works perfectly. But I use wireless internet for the rare time I have my computer out there.

Course what I found is that I don't watch much TV - and never use the computer when I'm working in my shop - becuase I'm WORKING in my shop! I use the computer while I watch TV at night.

 

[jgoglick]

I had a tv in the garage at the last house and in this one. It's a little 12 inch tv, but I just use it to listen to a ballgame when I'm in the garage.

 

[gcan]

wireless HDMI for tv? what is this?

I have Direct (hand in your pocket) TV and tried to have my detached garage added but was told it would be a seperate set up?? garage is only about 60 feet from my house. Even if I spliced into the house I would need a box and everything....that's what ***** about satelite you can't just add a TV like cable you have to rent another box, phone jack blah blah blah... Unfortunately I don't have access to cable so satelite is my only option

I also would like to have it to get a glance at football games on the weekends that way I could multi task....spend time in the garage and not miss any games

 

[december45]

My shop is about 500' from my router, and i have had pretty good luck with a http://www.linksysworks.com/WRE54G.asp
I have satelite internet and its kind of slow to begin with, the "range expander" slows it even more but it is workable, i have a couple of garage sale laptops and a desktop in the shop and they all work fine with this set up.

 

[apong23]

Why not just use the free off the air HDTV feed, get a converter box if your tv is old. You will get plenty of channels and they will be in HD.

For your wireless, if its a desktop that has a antenna on the computer, look into cantennas. They can be made from a can of your favorite soup, or coffee.

http://www.turnpoint.net/wireless/cantennahowto.html

Or you can get a wireless repeater, that will amplify your signal.

 

[99SVT]

Man, I had forgot about this... I had thought about doing this earlier in the year... of course, with my life, I forget what happened last week.

The TV I plan to put in there is a tube tv, so the converter box would work well.

Why not just use the free off the air HDTV feed, get a converter box if your tv is old. You will get plenty of channels and they will be in HD.

For your wireless, if its a desktop that has a antenna on the computer, look into cantennas. They can be made from a can of your favorite soup, or coffee.

http://www.turnpoint.net/wireless/cantennahowto.html

Or you can get a wireless repeater, that will amplify your signal.

 

[rickycobra]

It will work just fine. Now for using your wifi not to sure however if you were to get wifi out there you can use your computer to record tv shows for you.

 

[BirdRacer]

They also make adapters that plug into electrical outlets, carry the network signal over the power lines, then broadcast wifi at the other end.

Here's one example: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0002ZH71S/?tag=atomicindus08-20

This would only work if your shop power is subbed off your main house panel