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Aspirant

Jun 30, 2020

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

Aspirant

Jul 02, 2020

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!

CrimpOn

Guru - Experienced User

Jul 02, 2020

I agree that the #1 solution is to bury outdoor rated ethernet cable from the house to the garage. Highest performance. Allows total flexibility about what networking equipment to use. Alas, while direct burial outdoor cable is not costly, placing the cable can be a nightmare:

Trenching and placing conduit is disruptive and will cost more than the cable
Cable has to get up out of the ground and "into the building" on both ends.

There is another alternative which is less ethestically pleasing, but vastly easier: string cable through the air from the eave of the house up to the eave of the garage. Still have to penetrate both building walls, but there is a lot of flexibility over where to make the penetration.

Check out this product:

https://www.amazon.com/Dripstone-Aerial-Telephone-Messenger-Outdoor/dp/B078C5X9G9/ref=pd_lpo_328_t_1/136-7858461-1826201?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B078C5X9G9&pd_rd_r=c059bb95-df66-4eef-96c5-c2ae0d0da810&pd_rd_w=yOobY&pd_rd_wg=Xsho4&pf_rd_p=7b36d496-f366-4631-94d3-61b87b52511b&pf_rd_r=N463NRT1671PEFRT08X6&psc=1&refRID=N463NRT1671PEFRT08X6

cybergrrl
Aspirant
Jul 03, 2020
Unfortunately, working through the red tape of the home owners assoc and historic neighborhood committee to install a visible above ground cable would probably be more painful than the cost or effort of a buried cable so I think I'll just upgrade my router and cable and leave it at that. Maybe repositioning the extender closer to the back door and adding another wall plug extender upstairs if needed will improve things further.
Do you have a recommendation for a good router in this situation? I was looking at the Nighthawk R8000.
Thanks.