[SOLVED] How to extend home WiFi to a barn

[wba4493]

Hi all,
I have a pretty standard wireless LAN setup in my relatively small house (so no repeaters, signal boosters, etc. required), and I'm looking to connect my barn that is about 300' away to the network. I don't care about having WiFi between the house and barn, but would like to have it inside both locations. The catch is that the house and the barn are separated by fairly sizable stream, meaning running cable directly would be very difficult, and there's no real direct line of sight due to forest. I tried a range extender, but unfortunately it's not able to transmit across the distance through two walls and about a 50' wide swath of trees.

Does anyone have any thoughts on how I might be able to achieve this? My budget for hardware is pretty flexible, I'm just looking for a solution that will work, but I haven't really come up with anything good on my own.

 

[kanewolf]

Hi all,
I have a pretty standard wireless LAN setup in my relatively small house (so no repeaters, signal boosters, etc. required), and I'm looking to connect my barn that is about 300' away to the network. I don't care about having WiFi between the house and barn, but would like to have it inside both locations. The catch is that the house and the barn are separated by fairly sizable stream, meaning running cable directly would be very difficult, and there's no real direct line of sight due to forest. I tried a range extender, but unfortunately it's not able to transmit across the distance through two walls and about a 50' wide swath of trees.

Does anyone have any thoughts on how I might be able to achieve this? My budget for hardware is pretty flexible, I'm just looking for a solution that will work, but I haven't really come up with anything good on my own.

300 ft will require a point-to-point installation. Get a pair of Ubiquiti nanostation loco about #150 a pair -- https://www.amazon.com/NanoStation-NS-5ACL-US-802-11ac-Wireless-POE-24-7W-G/dp/B07K351LGD You put one on the outside of the house pointed at the barn and one on the outside of the barn. The network is brought inside via the ethernet cable. You can then have a switch or access point in the barn.
The wireless route only works with a line of sight. So you will have to get your chainsaw out and create a line of sight. Or put up towers to get a line of sight.