GTI Jake
Autocross Champion
- Location
- Charlotte, NC
I’m not the most technical guy when it comes to computer/internet networking kinda stuff so I’m looking for ideas from those of you who are well rounded in that field.
Issue: I built my shop roughly 200ft from my house and would like to have wifi out there. The building isn’t on Google earth yet, but heres where it sits unobstructed by trees in a straight line from the back of my house where our modem/router are.
Being a metal building it crushes my cell signal, so just being able to listen to internet radio is a struggle on Verizon so I’d like to at least be able to support that and Wyze cameras out there on wifi. The cameras were a gift, and they work ok most of the time up at the house, however I’m open to suggestions on upgrading there as well.
Anyway back to the building wifi, I called my internet provider this morning and they’d want a separate account to provide service to the shop which isn’t an option (I’m not out there THAT much). So from my uneducated perspective the two options would be a long range transmitter on the house & receiver on the shop like this
https://www.123securityproducts.com...MIy6CfxIHi6QIVAcDICh2J0wyHEAQYASABEgK3dvD_BwE
Or to just bite the bullet and dig a trench out there to run CAT5 from the house. In that case I’d also run a PEX water line out there which would be nice to have to wash cars, hands, and whatever else even if I just stubbed up a hose bib and didn’t actually add water service to the building itself.
Open to ideas and suggestions, and hopefully someone else will find this thread useful or ask their own questions here (off topic, feel free to ask away).
Issue: I built my shop roughly 200ft from my house and would like to have wifi out there. The building isn’t on Google earth yet, but heres where it sits unobstructed by trees in a straight line from the back of my house where our modem/router are.
Being a metal building it crushes my cell signal, so just being able to listen to internet radio is a struggle on Verizon so I’d like to at least be able to support that and Wyze cameras out there on wifi. The cameras were a gift, and they work ok most of the time up at the house, however I’m open to suggestions on upgrading there as well.
Anyway back to the building wifi, I called my internet provider this morning and they’d want a separate account to provide service to the shop which isn’t an option (I’m not out there THAT much). So from my uneducated perspective the two options would be a long range transmitter on the house & receiver on the shop like this
https://www.123securityproducts.com...MIy6CfxIHi6QIVAcDICh2J0wyHEAQYASABEgK3dvD_BwE
Or to just bite the bullet and dig a trench out there to run CAT5 from the house. In that case I’d also run a PEX water line out there which would be nice to have to wash cars, hands, and whatever else even if I just stubbed up a hose bib and didn’t actually add water service to the building itself.
Open to ideas and suggestions, and hopefully someone else will find this thread useful or ask their own questions here (off topic, feel free to ask away).