Need help with extending wifi

An extender or mesh, probably not. With 802.11 (at least a/b/g) there is a "three wall" rule of thumb on when you're going to significantly lose signal, and that's assuming drywall on wood studs, not lathe or brick.

You could do it if you mounted a unidirectional antennae at the shop and at a window pointing towards the stop antennae (you theoretically can shoot a wifi signal about 12 miles this way, until the curvature of the Earth becomes a factor.) You probably don't have a router with a replaceable antennae anyway, though.

If you have or can get unlimited data on your phone, you can try casting from your phone to the TV, where it will eat your phone data instead of your wifi. Most recent TVs have the ability to accept a cast from a phone; I did this with my GF's TV last weekend for the LSU game. The next alternative is to run ethernet from your house to the stop. You don't really need to bury it like you would electrical or plumbing, you can just "cut" the sod and jam the cable underneath the layer of grass.

I just added a Microtik 1Gb bridge last week to replace an extender duo that had been slowing down. My application is from my house to my shop 200 feet away. While it's a 1Gb bridge, I'm on Starlink (for now) and I'm getting 100mb up/down. All so that my wife doesn't have to hear me yell at Brian Kelly on Saturday nights.

Essentiallly it's two devices that are mounted external to the buildings and face each other (with no obstructions). Requires running an Ethernet cable from your network router (they usually have 2-4 ports) with POE (power for the bridge device). On the shop end you can just add a cheap router to hook the Ethernet cable into for shop Wifi.

I've mounted the house end of the bridge about 12-14 feet up in an eve. On the shop end it's at the same height. It may sound complicated, but it's really a snap once you run the wires. Just get the devices turned on (along with the new wifi router in your shop) and presto, you'll have great wifi in your shop.

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Run a cable. Rent the little cable trencher, run directly contact burial cat 5, put a router in the shed.

I went through this myself a few years ago. Just run the cable.

I recently installed a Wavlink AX3000 Wireless Outdoor Repeater. I drilled a hole in the wall of the house to run an ethernet cable from the indoor Starlink router to the outdoor Wavlink. That one cable gives the Wavlink internet signal and power (uses POE).

I set the Wavlink as an access point, and it is blasting 5.0 and 2.4 wifi into a house about 100 yards away, with plenty of signal (up to 200+ Mbps in some rooms, less in others) to stream videos. The whole large backyard area and that house now have good wifi.

You can also set the Wavlink as a repeater to wirelessly catch the signal from indoors and repeat it, but that is going to be a reduced signal as it passes through the wall of the house. And you will still need to get power to the Wavlink. Direct ethernet wire through the wall is the better solution.

There are a lot of good YouTube videos out there with rural owners installing Wavlinks and showing their setup and results.

I am no IT person. Had never even set up a wifi router, but I was able to do this fairly easily.

Most models you see have external antenna sticking out, but I got a newer model with strong internal antenna. It works fine, and it looks cleaner.

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You have two options.

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Or he may not. I have 30 feet of pavers / outdoor kitchen that abuts my back porch, which runs halfway across the back of the house. And beyond that part of my drainfield is in the yard as I live in freakin country. Then the treeline / forest before the shop.

Bridge was nearly plug and play compared to dealing w all that.

OP says he's not tech savvy , but you bring up Wavlink. But OK. Fair, you're telling him to have a wireless site survey to be done by someone else, to end up telling him... I don't know, point to point unidirectional antennae or trench a cable. Congrats on reading the entire one page thread.