I’d looking for options to extend my wifi coverage at home. Currently inside my one story ranch coverage is acceptable. Outside, I only have connection inside the blue circle. Router is located at the red dot.
I would like to add coverage inside the garage, which could be extended wireless or wired as I have an empty conduit available already. Garage is all metal, and the house has metal roof only.
I would also like to extend coverage to as much of the property as possible. Lot is a total of 5 acres. I’ve seen outdoor antennas which i could mount to my existing arial tv antenna. What is going to be the most cost effective method of achieving this setup?
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If you have an empty conduit, great, run fiber to each end. You have a switch on eack end with a SFP port on each end which is a 1Gb port. You add a LC module on each switch and connect up. With the switch in the garage, you now have a wired connection there. You can then add a Wifi Access Point, mounted on the ceiling. There are also AP’s that will work outside in the weather. You can mount one of those on the outside of the garage and/or house. APs get power over PoE (Power over Ethernet) So you use an injector for each AP in the garage and outside the garage. Switch to Injector and injector PoE to AP So switch needs power and Injector(s) need power.
Get a Fiber cable from FS.com. Get one long enough to reach each end. You can coil it up at one end the extra length. You can of course go further if you want to have PoE cameras around your garage, inside and out? If so, then it makes more sense to get a PoE Switch with a SFP port. It’s really easier than you think and not as expensive as you would think.
Run fiber to uplink, then remote buildings etc have a switch and connect your indoor or outdoor WAP’s