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cybergrrl
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...
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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 

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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.