Getting Cell Signal and Wifi To Detached Shop

Bury an ethernet cable from house to the shop. Or fiber.

If your phone doesn't pick up the wifi inside the shop, neither will the mesh point. You could try getting another point and put it inside the house (or maybe under covered outdoor space) near the shop where the signal is decent. Your other options:

1. Powerline adapters
Easy and cheap
May work great
May work shitty
May not work at all

2. Run ethernet cable
Best option
Should have done while building
May be a pain or impossible at this point, or may cost a lot

3. Wireless bridge (many options available)
Cheaper and easier than running cable in many cases
Very solid, very fast (though not as fast as hard wire)
Usually relatively small and not offensive looking, but it will still be shite hanging on your house/shop

Are you able to move the router so that it is on the side of the house where your shop is? You could take your satellite and plug it in in the shop and see if the signal reaches. If not, you could try one of the newer mesh systems that have better range and see if it works. Take it back if it doesn't. If it works, it would be a lot less expensive than running cable.

I know Tom's tests on newer systems show that the signal degrades about 40-60% with some systems, but 93% on the Google Wifi at 150 ft. One of those newer systems from Linksys or Netgear might have enough coverage to take are of you.



I recently purchased an Orbi mesh wifi and my modem and wifi router are in my detached garage. My satellite is about 45' away from my router in a 100 year old brick house. My signal is fantastic in the house. My wireless signal gives me about 400 mbps down in the garage and 300 mbps in the house. I still get about 80 mbps from the router (with the satellite turned off) on the opposite side of the house from where the router is in the garage , and that is probably about 70' from the router and with a lot of walls in between the two.