1000ft Wi-Fi or ethernet

[puddinbadger]

I have a work shop I want Wi-Fi in that is roughly 700ft from the closet ethernet port. Can I use more than one repeater to extend the ethernet cable(CAT6) that far? Can I use a directional antenna and beam enough signal for gaming and streaming? It is a clear path for an antenna. Also is there a way to turn that Wi-Fi signal into something a second router could connect to?

 

[Slow Pri]

You could bridge routers together and use them to have WiFi throughout the building. I believe that is significantly cheaper than doing CAT6. Not sure if that answers part of the question, but that's a slight input I have in this topic.

When I was working with a company, the company was looking for what was the better option overall between running CAT6 or using WiFi as the alternative. We ended up running WiFi just because the walls were thin and not use of concrete and at that time it was cheaper to run a few routers around the building to ensure having connectivity everywhere.

 

[bill001g]

Ethernet is limited to 100 meters ie about 300ft. You could put a cheap switch in every 300ft if this is indoors and there is a power socket. Otherwise you run fiber when you need to run distance. Although it is common to have this commerically installed because of the difficulty in putting the ends on. For a fairly short distance like you have you could buy premade fiber patch cables and VERY carefully pull them through a inexpensive conduit.

3 100 meters ethernet cables and 2 intermediate $20 switches likely would be you cheapest and most reliable if you can physically do it.

If you have clear line of sight you can use outdoor directional wireless bridges on both ends. Ubiquiti and engenius sell many models, should be able to get something for about $100 total. This assumes though you have clear line of sight, if there are walls it is not possible to say. To a point you can transmit the signals through walls but it depends what they are made of. Reinforced concrete tends to block a lot of signal.

 

[nigelivey]

Or you can use PoE extenders, if you have a PoE switch at one end of the run, they take PoE full power and data in, resend the data with a stepped down power output, I believe you can use 6 on a single cable. roughly at 80m intervals.
For example

http://www.veracityglobal.com/products/ethernet-and-poe-devices/outreach-lite.aspx

There are plenty of other brands out there with different functions, (ie: Is PoE required at the destination)