[SOLVED] Home wifi extended 200' to workshop??

[blkdog1954]

I ahev a workshop thats located 200 feet from the house. I have a central router in the house, and the workshop is line of sight from the house with no obstructions. Can I use a wifi outdoor access point on a post at the front of the house to send wifi to the workshop without hardwiring it? If so, what wifi outdoor acess device would be recommended for this distance?
Thanks.

 

[blkdog1954]

Thanks bill....
For a rank amateur at this I've taken a liking to Ubiquiti products...they seem to represent themselves well.
I did hear back from the cable company today...as suspected there would be an install charge and then I'd have to pay for another package just like I have at the house...suddenly a little ethernet cable in the house doesn't seem so bad. I'll try one unit down at the shop first and see if I get a strong enough signal....if not I'll go for the second on the house. I seem to recall when I checked at the shop I was getting a spotty 40% signal in certain areas close to the house side without anything....hopefully one ubiquiti unit at the shop will do the trick.... certainly a cheaper way to go
Thanks again for your patience

 

[Solandri]

They sell a bullet product as well as a couple other radios that take external antenna. They also sell a large selection of antenna.

If you (or anybody reading this thread) get a Bullet, do NOT get the 5 GHz Bullet if you live in the U.S. Ubiquiti screwed up their DFS implementation. Rather than blocking out just the DFS frequencies, they blocked out everything below channel 149. As a result, the 5 GHz Bullet cannot connect to hotspots using the non-DFS channels 36-48.

I was in contact with their tech support for several months trying to get this resolved, and they never did. As a result, I have a shiny 5 GHz Bullet Ti sitting in a box since it's unable to reliably connect to hotspots which auto-change channels (sometimes they change to channels 36-48). It's a fine piece of hardware, much better at pulling in a signal that other devices using the same antenna cannot. But it's hopelessly crippled by this software error.

 

[blkdog1954]

Thanks Solandri,
I am in BC,Canada so can I assume that I would be shipped a US product also? There is a local computer dealer that has advised he can order in Ubiquiti products for me, but with this information I'm not sure what product I would get.

 

[bill001g]

You likely want the nano stations anyway. The bullet is used if you want to use external antenna. The only concern I would have is if you want to use 2.4g. It does not appear they sell the nano stations on that frequencies. The older 802.11n units are still sold for 2.4g. They do sell their nano beam units on both 2.4 and 5 but they cost a bit more.

In general 2.4g will penetrate walls better than 5g but it does not have the same data rate.