Best way to get Wi-Fi in a metal shop from my house.

Can’t be done. Literally impossible.

Run an Ethernet cable, or get a repeater. Could get one that receives outside and rebroadcast the signal I side the building.

It’s surprising how little service penetrates through those metal buildings.

You need equipment similar to a WISP

Something like this to transmit the signal, the antenna to receive it and it is hardwired to the interior router to get the signal indoor to your shop

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ETA: I Just saw the 10 yards thing. Do you have any windows in the shop facing the house? If so get a mesh system and put one of the repeaters by the shop window.

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Metal doesn’t matter. It is actually worse with Sheetrock since it sucks up the signal since it is water based. Bounces off of metal.

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The things you read on here

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I had a garage about 10 yards from my brick house in Indiana. I had a Google hockey puck system for a while, and then when one of the pucks went out, I switched to Orbi. I put the modem and the router in the garage near the wall closest to the house and put the satellite in the center of the house. Worked great. My backyard had the best wifi connection in the area.

This was in Indiana. Freezing temperatures, snow, rain, and 100+ temps didn't bother my modem or router sitting in the garage.

I'd run a cable and plug a mesh system in out there. Like 3 pucks total, 2 in the house, one out in the shop.

My metal shop is about 20 yards from my house with a garage in between the house and shop. I have an Orbi mesh system. 1 router and 2 mesh units. In the house I have the router and one mesh unit. I put the other mesh unit by the only window in my shop. I never have any connection issues and get really fast speeds out there. I have the Orbi 750 series.

Before this, I had google wifi with 6 pucks. 4 in the house, 1 in the garage, and one in the shop. It worked but I had connection issues and wasn't nearly as fast.

It kinda depends on what the bandwidth needs of your shop are. If you're good with <10Mb (for production equipment, which is intermittent connectivity based) you can do wireless-wireless at the edge of the building. Depending on how far your closest access point is from the metal shop, you could be in an absolute black hole, or you may get intermittent connectivity.

You can use something like this to create the bridge relatively cheaply. It's probably overpowered for what you're doing in the shop, but it's also not a bank breaker.

802.11 (a/b/g, the slowest of the protocols) has a rule of thumb that is the "three wall rule." Three layers of drywall, and signal drops off. You always have to look for things in between your access point and your endpoints (this includes plaster/lathe walls, drywall, etc.) There are immutable laws of physics that you can't fix with wishes... The 2.4Ghz band is *exactly* blocked by normal chain link fences, because the wavelength of 2.4ghz is *exactly* the wavelength blocked by said chainlink fence. On 5Ghz, this is not as significant of an issue, but a ton of IoT equipment (sprinkler controllers, lights, garage controllers, etc.) only connects on 2.4.

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Yeah, 10 yards is nothing through windows *if* the antennae are placed at windows "facing" each other. However, if you put one puck in your living room 20 feet from the window, and try to put another puck in the shop window, that may not work so well.

Are you trying to watch 4K Hulu in your shop, or what?