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Can Orbi help with my issues?
Hi everyone. We have comcast as our interenet provider in our home. We have great speeds and have not expereinced issues that way. We do live in a wooded/mountain area so our cell coverage is awful h...
You can't just run a LAN cable to the pole building, as 100m is the maximum distance for Ethernet. The best would be to run a fiber optic cable to the building. You need two switches with SFP ports. Put one in the house and one in the pole building, with fiber connecting them. Then install a wireless access point in the pole building. Everthing would be on one network.
If you cannot run fiber, you could use a VDSL extender. Something like this one: https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-VDSL2-Ethernet-Extender-Single/dp/B002CLKFTG
Another alternative would be a wireless point-to-point link. Something like this: https://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-NanoStation-Dedicated-Management-NS-5ACL-US/dp/B078NN1J4K/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1539968404&sr=1-1&keywords=ns5-ac