connecting broadband to another building

2smiggy

i have broadband in my office where I work, and have recently moved house, this is now right beside my office, but it's in another building. I can run a network cable easily enough between the 2 buildings, it's only 20 metres on a flat roof and drill a few holes for the cable. Could any one point me with what I will have to buy to plug the network cable into to act as a router in the new house ? another router ? or a range extender ? The office is running on a different power line to the house , as it's the work office for the yard, in case home plugs are suggested

thanks in advance

homer911

What's wrong with WIFI for that distance?

bpmurray

If you can get away with WiFi, that's the best solution. If you really want go go wired, a switch is what you want rather than a router.

2smiggy

Old buildings and thick walls. I cannot pick up the WiFi from the office. It's not much of a problem running a cable to the house. Just wondering about setting up a WiFi signal again from the house once I run the network cable from the router

pizzahead77

2smiggy wrote: »

Old buildings and thick walls. I cannot pick up the WiFi from the office. It's not much of a problem running a cable to the house. Just wondering about setting up a WiFi signal again from the house once I run the network cable from the router

At the switch in the house, you'll need to connect a wireless access point

2smiggy

So from the router in the office I run the network cable to the house. From here I plug into another router, and this will work like a normal wireless router again around my house? Sorry for the questions, but just want to make sure this will work before I go drilling through a few walls!

bpmurray

No, you don't plug it into a router. You use a switch - it's similar but a different animal altogether. Actually you have 2 possibilities

• Draw a cable to the house, drilling whatever holes you need.
• Solution 1:
  • Connect to a switch (like a router but different)
  • Connect a wireless access point to the switch
  • Plug whatever you want into the other ports on the switch, and use WiFi as you wish
• Solution 2:
  • Connect to a Powerline network device like this (which you can get from Maplins)
  • If WiFi doesn't reach everywhere, simply plug in another one of those somwhere else

I'd probably go with the powerline stuff - it's insanely simple.

Irish Steve

Why bother with a router AND a range extender, a WiFi equipped device like the TP link WDR3600 will work as a router and a WiFi device with no hassles, there's 4 Ethernet ports on the device, one of which will be used by the incoming signal from the main modem/router, so another 3 devices can be connected by Ethernet, the only thing that probably will have to be changed is the device IP address (to avoid a conflict with the main router) and DHCP has to be disabled as the main router will be dealing with that. The main router may need a change to the DHCP range to exclude the address of the second router.

I've been using one here now for 12 months to get a stronger WiFi signal at the other end of the house, as I had a WiMax modem on the first floor, to get best incoming signal, but the WiFi signal wasn't great at the other end of the house (BIG chimney in the middle), so the TPLink is in the family room and wired back to the office.

Just upgraded to E-Fibre with Imagine, and the smartphone is getting 37MB down and 14 up on WiFi, so there's not a lot wrong there.