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Need help getting signal from house to barn
I have a RBR750 Router with 2 satellites inside my home. Everything works great.
I recently built a barn about 190' away from my home, that I added a 3rd satellite in.
The barn seems to be to far away to pick up a good strong signal from the house. So on nice days I bring one of my indoor satellites, out from the house and plug it in near the end of the pool area (closest point to the barn. About 70' from the house). This seems to get me a good (not great) signal to where I can at least stream YouTube TV in the barn while I'm working.
What is a good way to get a full signal out in the barn, where I won't have to bring out an indoor satellite, outdoors every time?
Is there a good "outdoor" satellite that is compatible with the RBR750 that I can add in the pool area that would reach the barn?
I have attached an image of the property.
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I'd pickup an outdoor rated point to point system. Netgear used to have netgear airbridge but it's been out of stock. Plenty of other companies make them and for that distance, you could get a 5ghz based one with decent throughput. That'd like you connect the barn and use the satellite in it as the point to point acts as basically a ethernet wire.
Would have been great if when the electrical supply was installed to the barn an extra PVC conduit was laid for an Ethernet cable. (sigh. hindsight and all)
The most common solution for this situation is a "point to point wireless bridge". Amazon search will produce a range of products from $100 to $300.
It would be a good idea to spend a few minutes reading the user comments on some of the products. Notice how often "barn" comes up.
Generally speaking, one would be more likely to consider products from known companies, such as Ubiquiti, TP-Link, etc. and products with hundreds of reviews rather than just a few.
This solution appears to the equipment on each end to be an ordinary Ethernet connection.
These products are often rated in terms of kilometers, so 200 ft. is not a challenge. They may even be strong enough that the units can be mounted inside the house and the barn (if the walls are not metal). This avoids the bother of penetrating the exterior walls to run the PoE cables outside.
Netgear does not sell an outdoor rated satellite compatible with their WiFi6 or WiFi7 products.
Some people have used plastic "weatherproof enclosures" to place an indoor rated satellite outside. The main obstacles to this solution are the electrical connection and preventing overheating.
I've seen the tp-link ones get pretty good reviews and be pretty easy to setup. Fairly cheap to from looking at them. I've been very tempted to pickup a set for at my parents place for my old man's shop/outbuilding
