Wifi extended 350 feet

[hunger5]

Hello, I own a business and my house is 300 feet away. The router and modem are at the business and I would like to send the signal to my house (300 feet away). There is a large metal garage in between the house and the business which is causing me issues with my router. Can anyone explain what I need to buy and set up to get it to my house? Outdoor antenna? (please be specific in your suggestions, because I am not very familiar with any of this)
Thank you in advance!

 

[bill001g]

You can look at outdoor bridge equipment from engenius or ubiquiti. In both cases you will need to mount it high enough to get over a metal building. They are pretty simple to setup you put one on each end and run a ethernet cable inside to the power injector. From your networks point of view it is just a very long ethernet cable.

I would look at the companies sites and see which ones you like the best. Both companies have products in the $50-$75 for each end so $100-$150 total....other than the costs to mount it to the roof or whatever so you get clear line of sight.

 

[hunger5]

You can look at outdoor bridge equipment from engenius or ubiquiti. In both cases you will need to mount it high enough to get over a metal building. They are pretty simple to setup you put one on each end and run a ethernet cable inside to the power injector. From your networks point of view it is just a very long ethernet cable.

I would look at the companies sites and see which ones you like the best. Both companies have products in the $50-$75 for each end so $100-$150 total....other than the costs to mount it to the roof or whatever so you get clear line of sight.

So, do I want an omnidirectional antenna or a directional? And what does 8dBi or 14dBi? And which one do you recommend?

Also, if I need an antenna on each building like unsaid, will I need a router at each building?
Thanks

 

[bill001g]

Direction will be better since you are going between 2 locations. The higher the DB the better but your distance is so low it likely does not matter. Even the inexpensive device can go many miles and are over kill for your requirements.

You would only need a router in the second location if you want wireless inside. In the first location you hook the bridge to your current router. At the second location you can hook directly to the bridge if you only have 1 device. You can use a cheap switch if you have all wired devices or you can use a inexpensive router running as a AP (there is s sticky on forum how to do this) to provide wired and wireless to devices in second building.