re: Barn is 350' from house, how to get a wifi signal?

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Absolutely.
I've run some 500+' for residential purposes, the customer always knowing the likelyhood of it being flawless is not high.
Power is always your distance limitation on a 26 gauge wire.

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Besides the distance issue, your biggest problem with copper is going to be lightning. Even with surge suppression at both ends we still see significant issues.

Either go beam or go fiber.

I had to put internet almost a 1000' from my house at my gate. No clear line of sight and wifi wouldn't work even with dedicated antennas. I laid down RG11 cable point to point and installed multimedia over coax (MOAC) converters at each end. My upload and download speeds at the gate are the same as they are at home, zero appreciable loss. I placed an access point at the far end. After three years I have lost the AP once and the MOAC converter once presumably to lightning. Both are less than $30 on amazon. Picked up a 1500' roll of RG11 off craigslist for $50. Works great.

A couple of hundred yards outside is a very difficult one. Better off setting up the phone as a hotspot.

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I’d like to have a easy option of hooking up a long range AP of sorts in my condo to setup a network I can access from the beach. I forgot to see about how far it is tho. I’d guess a cpl hundred yards?

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Do you have line of sight?

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Correct me where I'm wrong.

You buy 2 nano beams.
Beam 1- Would be connected to power and Ethernet.
Beam 2- Would be connected to power and then to a access point of my choosing (Wifi Router) via Ethernet.

You align them using the app. Beam 1 would act as a sender, beam 2 the receiver, and said connected router would work fine?

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Basically, yes.

They should come with a PoE adapter, so they get power and network through the one cable. One of them goes in "access point" mode, and the other in "station" mode, I don't think it matters which is which but I would put the one on the router side as the AP. Mount them and point them at each other, there's even a handy LED signal meter on the device I believe.

Once they are configured and aligned, they should work exactly as if they were connected by a cable, like they aren't even there. The cable coming from your router goes to the PoE injector, then injector to AP nanobeam. On the other end, signal comes in through the station nanobeam, then PoE injector, then on to a small switch. Then you can plug whatever you need into the switch, a wifi access point, hardwire to TV, etc., and it should work exactly as if that switch had a long cable run to the router in the house.

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Korkstand

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Thanks.


After my post I was finally able to find their 'quick start' guide. I see exactly what you're saying. This seems like the best remedy for my parents, I will be passing this along.


Thanks again.

You're going to need a power source on the beach for an antenna.

Run an ethernet cable from the house to the barn. Rent a wire layer and do it. Everything else sucks. Finally gave up and did it with my shop and it is wayyyyy better

Do the setup below in the link? This is what RV's use. I use a TP-Link router instead of the Cube in the video.

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