Help with Wifi in detached garage.

acorn

I need help with WiFi please. I've run a cat6 ethernet cable from the router in the main house. Sorry to sound clueless but what do I need now in order to have wifi in detached garage? Is it a router? Will any router do ? Router in main house is Vodafone. Thanks in advance.

LambshankRedemption

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058329565/help-with-wifi-in-detached-garage

No, not any router will do.

How many wifi devices do you think you will be using in the garages?

The simplest method might be a wireless to ethernet bridge.

acorn

Just a tv, 2 phones and laptop.

Can you explain wireless to ethernet Bridge for dummies please

sundodger5

Could he not just put a second router in AP mode?

Edit have a look at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REiL6r00GC8

other stuff available online so should be achievable

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121571760#Comment_121571760

That’s quite a lot of devices in a garage 😁 but I assume it’s not functioning a typical garage per se.

Anyway, Vodafone community have suggestions for you here in your very situation, where you can use, eg one of the TP Link devices to connect to your Ethernet cable and extend the WIFI you need

https://forum.vodafone.co.uk/t5/Other-broadband-queries/How-to-extend-network-to-outbuilding/m-p/2732897#M28516

bnt

Router? Overkill. If the garage uses the house power, get a pair of powerline adapters, the type with a wireless access point on one of them.

wandererz

Wifi router for less than €25.

May just need an EU to UK adaptor plug.

ASUS RT-N12LX Wi-Fi Ethernet LAN Black router- routers (802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n, IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g, IEEE 802.11n, IEEE 802.3, IEEE 802.3u)

https://amzn.eu/d/4ZXUa38

ItHurtsWhenIP

If there is a CAT6 cable already run from the main router in the house to the garage, then surely a simple AP is all that is needed.

That ASUS router (previous post), while dirt cheap, is pretty slow. If the OP has fibre, they'd be better off with a WiFi 6 capable AP. Something like the Ubiquiti U6 Lite would be perfect.

Slightly Kwackers

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058329565/help-with-wifi-in-detached-garage

Well I just use any old router as a WAP.

In the UK BT routers were two a penny, obviously they cannot be connected to the phone line, but plug the ethernet in stick appropriate sucurity and SSID settings in and you are good to go.

I had a recent upgrade here and they didn't ask for the old router I used with the fibre connection, so I dangled it across to the new one using an ethernet cable. This was to keep my old zero security wifi settings. The new router needed a security setup in order to "automate" my printer connection. For some reason the setup routine needed the WPS button to interface router to printer, whereas the old router was fine with the previous HP device.

The old router was a Technicolor and the replacement it's connected to is an EIR specified F@st.

Anyway, few companies seem to want their old routers returning so give it a try.

I did buy some cheapo Chinese wifi range extenders that do the job, also but as I have a few I do get a few problems with channel clashes.

The only thing that does not work for me as far as comms go is the mains to ethernet pair of plug in's, but as you have the cable to the shed it isn't a problem that affects you. It's something to bear in mind if you use them to signal test though if you ever suspect a cable problem.

acorn

Thanks everyone for your ideas.

For starters I need a connector on the cable. As I don't have a crimping tool is this type of connector my best bet?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/VCELINK-Tool-Free-Connectors-Toolless-Ethernet/dp/B0BS12RTV5/ref=asc_df_B0BS12RTV5/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=658858586570&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=17954293361233658794&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1007880&hvtargid=pla-2388180106072&psc=1&mcid=fd2920401b2e38358be8655e6ebcc9fc

Slightly Kwackers

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121576698#Comment_121576698

I never used one. I have a crimping tool but as I'm in Kerry you might have problems if you want to borrow it. I think I have some connectors left also.

The link seems to suggest it's good quality though. Frankly I'm sick of some of the tat that I end up with from Amazon, but in your position would give them consideration, they have better than the normal feedback by quite a few buyers too.

If you let me know whether you can collect I will sort it out and see what connectors I have.

It would be a loan, it isn't for sale. I like to see stuff used rather than sit idle though

sundodger5

How long is the cable run?

Prebuilt cables are not mad money in Harvey Norman.

https://www.harveynorman.ie/computing/computer-accessories/cables/digitus-20m-cat-5e-u-utp-rj45-network-cable-grey.html

wandererz

OP, before you do anything else, would you please describe how you ran the ethernet cable from the house to the garage?

acorn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121576755#Comment_121576755

Thank you so much for your kind offer. I think maybe I can source one locally, just need to reach out, I'm working on it😀

If it doesn't work out I'll see about a trip to Kerry, never a bad thing !

acorn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121577280#Comment_121577280

I had to upgrade the electrics in the garage so I got the electrician to run a cat6 cable beside the mains cable from the house. Garage is adjacent to house but not attached. Today I dropped the cat6 from attic to house router and the other end is dropped in the garage. Cable is probably 40-50m. Ideally need WiFi in garage as opposed to ethernet because mobile signal is weak.

_ptashek_

OP, if you don't need that WiFi to be fast, I have two Buffalo WHR300N-G2 (2.4GHz only, 300Mbps max) access points that you can have for free if you pick them up, or cover the postage. They were destined for the WEEE bin, but we're fully functional 2y ago when I decommissioned them from my network. Dry stored in a drawer ever since.

Both are running on DD-WRT.