Re: Wireless from house to detached garage

On Jan 11, 10:39 pm, "Peter Pan" <PeterPanNOS...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
seaweedsteve wrote:
On Jan 10, 10:36 am, myadm...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Can't do the powerline thing, the garage will have its own service
:-(

Well, your plan B (or C depending) sounds just as good. Powerline to
that end of the house, put a wireless router there and use it as a
switch/AP.

Put a reflector on it if you need more signal in the garage.

Alternatively, you could cable from a powerline at that end of the
house to the garage, but I would only do that if there was too much
wall to get through, signal wise.

Steve

Just out of curiosity, what's your garage made from? I've run into a few
outbuildings with the corrugated metal sheets on the walls, or metal snow
roofs, that block wifi... Hope you don't run into that..... :)

Just regular ole 2 x 6 and siding, nothing metallic or fancy. I
talked to the Verizon folks yesterday and I think that I may just have
them (or my electrician) bury a conduit for the cable TV service and
when they do that I'll have them throw an ethernet cable in there as
well, that way the garage will actually be hardwired w/the internet.
Might just be easier that way.

this is where I get lost, if I hardwire the garage, how does a
wireless AP then broadcast my Verizon internet service? Do I just
plug it into the jack and set it up to broadcast?

OK, back to the main house, I'm still trying to decipher how I'm
supposed to connect if I am trying to boost the signal w/in the house
(not having any luck w/the parabolic reflector, I don't think my
skills were up to par when making it, I'm going to try it w/a manilla
envelope, I originally used the cardboard that makes up the external
portion of the packaging for a linksys router, it's not corrugated,
but maybe too thick to work?)

The equipment I have now includes the Verizon ActionTec router, a
Linksys Wireless Router as well as a Linksys Wireless Access Point. I
think the Linksys WAP will only play nice w/the linksys router and not
directly w/the Verizon ActionTec router.

If I hook up the linksys router to the verizon router I see two
wireless networks, then if I hook the WAP into the linksys router I
see three networks. This is where my ignorance of how this stuff
works shines. If I use the WAP to repeat the Verizon broadcast am I
then supposed to pick the linksys WAP from my available networks to
connect to instead of the Verizon router directly?

There is something to be said for hardwired networks, lol.
Thanks.
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