What to do on large property?

[dupio]

Hi All,

I've got an acreage with a shop on one end and a house on the other. I've currently got a WRT54G in the house that works perfectly. The shop is 500-600 feet away from the house, and I'd love to get connected there. My router will get me about 1/3 of the way there.

I see all these options regarding WDS, repeaters, extenders, directional antennas and the like, and would appreciate some suggestions on how to proceed. I don't care about getting better access anywhere else on the property, or streaming in HD. There's a relatively straight road between the two, with trees elsewhere, though I don't have a direct line of sight.

 

[stevech]

I wonder if a simple link via HomePlug will work?

 

[dupio]

Unfortunately, the shop and house aren't connected to power together. They both come off separate transformers and power poles.

 

[GregN]

Probably defeats the purpose, but two different ISPs, or two different accounts with the same ISP?

Then bridge the two via the net?

Other option is run coax between the two, via the power pole I would guess, to get to the other side of the road. What is the distance? Got a culvert under the road?

Other option is a roof antenna, wi-fi, but of that I know very little, I know it can be done, had a guy who split his T3 and corresponding expenses with the neighbors, on a cul-de-sac back in the day.

 

[stevech]

Unfortunately, the shop and house aren't connected to power together. They both come off separate transformers and power poles.

Thus, I recommend a pair of these WiFi bridges with built-in antennas. There are 4 or so decent vendors. This one I've used.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833168071

Just get them at roof eaves height, with fairly clean line of sight. Connect one to your router's LAN port. The other produces an ethernet port that you can connect to PCs, a switch, and/or a WiFi access point or WiFi router that is repurposed as an access point.