Tagging onto Existing Broadband Connection

Saint Sonner

I am going to move into the house next door to my parents just at weekends - it s in the country but it basically about 25m from door to door.
I have been thinking about installing internet but I m not sure if it s worth it for the short times I will be there someone mentioned to me that I could get something to tag on to my Parents wifi it s pretty fast fibre connection.


Does anyone know how to do this, what I have to buy to do it and if maybe even advise if it s a waste of time?

TheChizler

What do you mean by 'tag on'?

What devices do you plan on using? All WiFi enabled or do you want to use devices with a wired network connection?

srsly78

OP you want a professionally installed, lightning-protected ethernet cable connecting the 2 houses together. Ask an electrician about this. No you can't just bury a normal cable - lightning strike could wreck your equipment and possible burn houses down etc.

Once you have that, then you want a properly configured network - with wifi hotspots in both houses. Unless you have technical ability you probably want to get this professionally done as well.

In theory you could connect both houses wirelessly, but this never works very well in my experience.

TheChizler

srsly78 wrote: »

OP you want a professionally installed, lightning-protected ethernet cable connecting the 2 houses together. Ask an electrician about this. No you can't just bury a normal cable - lightning strike could wreck your equipment and possible burn houses down etc.

Once you have that, then you want a properly configured network - with wifi hotspots in both houses. Unless you have technical ability you probably want to get this professionally done as well.

In theory you could connect both houses wirelessly, but this never works very well in my experience.

I think that might be overkill for what the OP wants!

Do you or your parents own the second house OP? Will you be living there long enough to justify the effort and expense of drilling holes and laying cable?

A cheap, basic WiFi repeater might be all that's needed.

srsly78

Wifi repeaters are ****ing **** is the issue, not only would they give bad connection in the house B - they also gimp wifi in house A!

nelly17

Will homeplugs not do the job here _ I was always under the impression that they have encryption because the Signal is transmitted over the copper cabling in your house which in turn is connected to the mains cable which in turn is connected to your neighbours hence you need to encrypt the connection so depending on the distance it could work.

Edit: Then just stick a wifi router configured as a wireless access point in house B at the end of the homeplug

srsly78

Homeplugs will not work between 2 electrically isolated buildings. Even if both share the same mains, they each have a fuseboard etc.

Saint Sonner

Thanks for all the quick responses
We own both houses but don't want t go to the hassle or expense of laying cable just thoght it could be done wirelessly but if its going tocause connection problems for both houses I will probably just get cheap broadband connected.

TheChizler

srsly78 wrote: »

Wifi repeaters are ****ing **** is the issue, not only would they give bad connection in the house B - they also gimp wifi in house A!

I've had decent ones. Depending on the OP's use case they might be fine.
OP personally I'd see if you can pick up your parents' WiFi in the other house at all, if you can is it strong and fast enough to be usable, and if so get a Netgear or LinkSys router/access point off eBay or amazon that can be configured in client mode (put DD-WRT on it). You can put it in a position with good reception and connect wired devices to this. Ideally it would have a second antenna to broadcast its own WiFi network, but chances are you have an old gateway lying around the place that could be used just to broadcast WiFi.
This might be good enough for you, depending on your use case.

ED E

Repeaters impact the main house too as well as his weekend place. Bad idea.


Saint what you want is a Ubiquiti P2P link.
Existing Router/Modem--Ubiquiti on Wall <--25m span

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> Ubiquiti on wall---Wireless access point.

This + This for example. Shop around for best prices.

Its worth spending the money now to pay nothing and forget about it for years to come.

PS: This is against the terms of service with most ISPs, just so you're aware.

The Cush

We have a setup similar to ED E suggestion between 2 houses on a 3Mbps broadband connection, work fine when properly configured.