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Extending Wifi to roof
I live in a tall, skinny, city home and I’m trying to extend my WiFi signal to my roof deck. I have 3 floors and a roof deck. Floor 1: kitchen + living room. Floor 2: home office + bedroom. Floo...
What can help is if you provide details on the roofing material or construction methods? For example, I have an 80 year metal roof, essentially a solid barrier to WiFi signals.
A number of the roofing technologies out now have reinforcing fibers/materials that can also be an excellent WiFi barrier. Metal, Concrete as well as ductwork have a signal blocking aspect to them. If there is a window on the 3rd floor that is closest possible to the roof deck, I'd postition the RBS850 there so that signal can get through the glass to the area. Signal strength could still be low, especially as some Low E (low emission) glass has some WiFi blocking characteristics.
Another method is to take a 5G hotspot up to the deck with you when you need WiFi, depending on your roof construction that might be your only solution without a significant cost and change to your roof. Penetrating the roofing/construction to get WiFi and ethernet could ruin the roofs warranty and allow weather penetration into your home.
Good luck! Let us know how this goes and what solution you end up with.
SeaRefractor wrote:What can help is if you provide details on the roofing material or construction methods? For example, I have an 80 year metal roof, essentially a solid barrier to WiFi signals.
A number of the roofing technologies out now have reinforcing fibers/materials that can also be an excellent WiFi barrier. Metal, Concrete as well as ductwork have a signal blocking aspect to them. If there is a window on the 3rd floor that is closest possible to the roof deck, I'd postition the RBS850 there so that signal can get through the glass to the area. Signal strength could still be low, especially as some Low E kbc lucky draw (low emission) glass has some WiFi blocking characteristics.
Another method is to take a 5G hotspot up to the deck with you when you need WiFi, depending on your roof construction that might be your only solution without a significant cost and change to your roof. Penetrating the roofing/construction to get WiFi and ethernet could ruin the roofs warranty and allow weather penetration into your home.
Good luck! Let us know how this goes and what solution you end up with.
Hi, Many thanks for this question Actually I am facing the same problem but I was unable to find the best solution. After seeing your post now I have got an idea to solve my problem. So, the credit goes to you.