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cybergrrl
Jun 30, 2020Aspirant
Looking for mesh setup to connect home and detatched garage
I'm working from home and my office is in the DETACHED garage, 110' away from the router in the house. I currently have a Linksys EA8500 AC2600 router in the house and a Netgear Nighthawk X6S Extende...
cybergrrl
Jul 02, 2020Aspirant
Thanks to everyone for your replies. I guess I was hoping for that elusive answer of "here's exactly what you need" that would solve everything. I had seriously thought about running an underground cable from the house to the garage because I'd really prefer a hardwired solution or purchasing a seperate Xfinity account just for the garage but looking at less costly options first.
In all honesty, I can get at least 40Mbps around 75-80% of the time with my current set up so perhaps what I should just focus on is replacing the inside router which has a known problem of randomly dropping the connection and be happy. Oh, and to respond to CrimpOn , the 40+42 just goes to the outside of the garage, it's another 20'+ upstairs to my office, but you're right, there are several walls between the router and the office, and although the exterior is not brick, it's hardyplank.
You've been very helpful - I'll be back if I have problems with a router!
FURRYe38
Jul 02, 2020Guru - Experienced User