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Orbi135Ward
Jan 04, 2025Aspirant
Is there an extender with external antenna that works with RBR40 router with RBW30 satellites
I have a pole barn for mechanical repair, welding projects, work benches. The building is grounded all metal walls and roof, concrete floor, no windows. I spend a lot of time in this building and w...
- May 18, 2025
Maybe running an ethernet cable from the satellite in my garage to an access point in the pole barn would provide the most reliable wifi service to the pole barn. I have an old Netgear EX6100 that can be used as a hard-wired access point. However, running a wire will be a chore. Drilling through the garage wall, channeling under a concrete sidewalk with a water hose hooked to some 3/4" conduit, coming up through a concrete floor in the lawn shed. Once I get that far I have a conduit from the shed to the pole barn I can run the wire through. It even has a 15 year old chalk line string in the conduit to pull the ethernet wire. Hopefully it's not rotten and will take the stress of pulling the new wire through. Years ago I enjoyed the challenge of doing something like this. Now that I'm in my mid 70s it's more work than play, once I get on my knees .... it's hard to get back up standing. :-( Yeah, boo hoo, whoa is me ..... getting old sucks but it beats the alternative. One of my favorite quotes: "The spirit never ages, it's the body that ages, failing the spirit" George Harrison.
plemans
Jan 04, 2025Guru - Experienced User
If it was me? And I spent a lot of time in a building and wanted a reliable signal?
I'd pickup a half decent point to point system from amazon. If you're needing faster speeds, I'd get a 5ghz based one but a 2.4ghz would work for basic needs. They can be picked up pretty reasonable and work great on the point to point part of it. You'd put one on the house and one on the exterior of your building. Then run the cable indoors and connect an orbi satellite. The version you have is pretty old and you can get satellites pretty reasonably used.
That'd make for a rock solid system with using the same ssid and great coverage.
Or bury an underground cable and be done with it 🙂