house to workshop broadband

howdoyouknow

Hi all, I have eircom broadband in my house and would like to access it in my workshop which is about 300 metres across fields from my house. Is there any way I can reliably transmit the wireless signal from the house to the workshop? I have electric already connected to the shed. Any help or suggestions and solutions are greatly appreciated.

homer911

The usual suggestions would be a high speed homeplug or a wifi repeater..

howdoyouknow

homer911 wrote: »

The usual suggestions would be a high speed homeplug or a wifi repeater..

Can anyone reccomend a particular model or brand that would cover this distance without loosing the quality of signal?

howdoyouknow

homer911 wrote: »

The usual suggestions would be a high speed homeplug or a wifi repeater..

Can anyone reccomend a particular model or brand that would cover this distance without loosing the quality of signal?

jbkenn

howdoyouknow wrote: »

Can anyone reccomend a particular model or brand that would cover this distance without loosing the quality of signal?

This will solve your problem, give these people a shout
Wicom Systems Ltd.
TEL: 052 6157330
http://wicomstore.com/product/nanostation-m2/
p.s. I have no connection with this company.

colm_mcm

Is the shed running off the house meter?

Freddy Smelly

home plugs wont work... the workshop is likely on a separate power fuse box. especially if the workshop has 3 phase power sockets for machinery - noise will be insanely high)

you have 3 options.

1. hi gain external wifi antennae (best option) something like this would do nicely http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833980009
2. run a cat 5e or cat 6 cable (not recommended due to potential dangerous risk of electrical fire if one of the two fuse boxes gets a surge or fault)
3. optical cable linking house to workshop (expensive to install requires special optical to ethernet equipment on both ends)

howdoyouknow

colm_mcm wrote: »

Is the shed running off the house meter?

No separate power supplies to both.

Cuddlesworth

300 Metres is too far for homeplugs anyway.
Its too far for ethernet cable too.
If there are trees or other obstructions in the line of sight, then wifi is out too. You're left with running fibre then, which won't be cheap.

What's your budget here? It might be cheaper overall to just drop a dsl connection into the workshop, if it has a phone in it already.

Bog Standard User

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

300 Metres is too far for homeplugs anyway.
Its too far for ethernet cable too.
If there are trees or other obstructions in the line of sight, then wifi is out too. You're left with running fibre then, which won't be cheap.

What's your budget here? It might be cheaper overall to just drop a dsl connection into the workshop, if it has a phone in it already.

the hi gain outdoor wifi antennae will work for him (about €60 - €70 once off charge - far cheaper than a new dsl sub with 12 month contract)

mount it on the chimney of the house nice and high and it should have less obstructions to block it

trompele

Hi,
If you have LoS between 2 places use wifi bridge to connect 2 places.
Ubiquiti nanostation loco m5 from linitx.com would be sufficient (it will most likely work with NLoS - near line of sight).