Extending my Wireless signal into my detatched garage.

[tjcusick]

Our cable modem is located in the front of the house. I have run an Ethernet cable from the Modem to my wireless router located in the center of the house in the living room. In the living room everything wireless is running at full strength. The walls of my house are old and made up of wire mesh and horse hair plaster, so signal strength through the walls is weak at best.

I am looking for a way of getting the wireless signal boosted outside the house so I can use my devices in the backyard as well as in my garage. My house sits on a property of about 150 feet (front to back) the house sits basically at the very front of the property and thus the wireless modem is just about at the front of the property as well.

I do have capability of running Ethernet cable from the router into the garage, I just have not done that yet... the garage is about 50 feet from the wireless router.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

 

[ss202sl]

Run an ethernet cable from the house to the garage, and set up a AP. Similar to this

http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/19852/~/how-do-i-set-up-a-wireless-router-as-an-access-point-on-a-network-that-has

 

[tjcusick]

Does distance matter when running the thernet cable from the house to the garage?

 

[ss202sl]

Ethernet cables can go about 300 feet(100 meters) total length.

 

[bill001g]

The limit is 100m make sure you protect the cable if you bury it or use outdoor cable