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Extend Wifi to an outbuilding what hardware needed?
Moving to a flat above the garage, about 50 feet from main house. Have a 2-piece Orbi RBR20 unit, thinking I might need more hardware to boost the signal in my new apartment (a 2 room setup). My ex...
My landlord is 80 yr old friend of a friend. I don't want to stress him out. The home routers do not provide phantom power for PoE. I would need a pricey switch for that no deal. I know about the type of solution you mention I will call a vendor who put in outdoor WiFi commercial boosters in our car dealership. It was quite pricey. I had a thought about Orbi but I think it's outside Orbi world.
Here's the product page for Nanostations: https://www.ui.com/airmax/nanostationm/
I looked up one of them on Amazon, and people talked about installing them "indoors" instead of outdoors on a pole mount. I guess if they will carry 10km, they will probably get through a wall or two and go 75ft. A package of two, complete with PoE injectors is under $150US. One end would plug into the landlord's router and the other end would plug into any old brand of Access Point.
p.s. I am not "pushing" Ubiquiti. Several community members have mentioned that product. Amazon is happy to suggest lots of other brands. And, a Google search might even turn up better alternatives.
So the Ubiquiti units are not true 'wi-fi' yes? They are acting as Ethernet "bridge" so I would plug the receiving side into my Orbi access point?
Thank you for taking the time and trouble to try to come up with a viable solution. I imagine this 'issue' is fairly frequent as separate 'flats' or other outbuildings are becoming the norm in home construction as parents age. When the parents pass on, then the outbuildings are a source of ongoing rental income and the benefit is the landlord is very much eyes-on his rental unit!
Yes indeed. These Ubiquiti (and similar) units have a three-way selector switch and "bridge" is one of them. The maximum throughput on these particular units is 150mb. Not equal to an Orbi backhaul, but possibly enough to get by. And, it is interesting that they seem to have the same throughput no matter whether they are using 900MHz, 2.4G, or 5G.
If you decide to try a product like this, please post the results. As you said, this is becomming a very common issue on the forum.