Wireless recommendation for my house and shop.

I would like to have wireless access throughout my house as well as to my shop which is 320ft from the house.

Is there a relatively simple solution to accomplish this?

If you could recommend a wireless router and antenna configuration that would work that would be much appreciated.

Thank you in advance.
Live2RideHD

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Pete Karasz
AIM - Karasz68

Hi there
You would need to have line of sight and external antenna to connect two buildings together. 320ft is no problem with standard access points like Linksys and Netgear, you would just need two that could work in bridge or repeater mode together. Just use a pair of 13dBi flat panel antenna or even an 8-10dBi omni antenna at one in repeater mode end so you could connect localy to it with wireless clients.
I am installing one tomorrow using a Linksys WRT54G at the internet gateway end and a WAP54G at a remote building 600ft away with two 13dBi flat panels and 6ft Commscope RG8 cables at each end. Will post results in the nest couple of days.

Dale

If you have good line of sight you could go with the same setup I did today. At the internet connection end I used a Linksys WRT54G with factory firmware and 13dBi panel antenna on connector nearest DC power input. Remote building about 200 metres (600ft) away I used a linksys WAP54G with factory firmware and same 13dBi panel setup in Bridge mode with WRT54G. Both ends had a 2.5 metre (8ft) RG8 cables and pole mounted. Just used 64Bit WEP for security as there are no buildings near buy.
Good solid link, 100% ping over an hour.

This would be the easiest way to link your two buildings reliably

Good luck

Thanks for the information that is going to help!

I forgot to mention that I also have Vonage setup. Is there a good Linksys Wireless router that has the phone ports, removable antennas?

Also on the internet gateway side if I put the 13db omni directional antenna on the one side and mount it outside, what type of coverage will I get through the house?

Is is OK to have two diff. types of antennas on a singer wireless router?

Thanks again.
Live2RideHD

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Pete Karasz
AIM - Karasz68

I can't be sure as we don't have that service here in NZ, but I'd say the WRT54GP2 is what you are after. It has two phone ports and the antennas are removable so you can connect any external antenna with a RP-TNC connector.

Having two different antennas on the same router or AP is great if you want to improve roaming access to laptops around your building, but do not try to link the buildings and provide access to laptops off the same router as you will run into problems. Set up a pair access points dedicated to the bridge between the two buildings and use the wireless router to supply laptops.

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Jeremy

Marlborough WiFi Project