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Wifi Extender in Metal Shop
Hi. I'm not very good with technology, so I'm hoping someone can help me out. I have a metal building that is ~4800 sq ft. We ran cable from my house to the shop and connected it to a router. Wifi i...
WiFi cannot penetrate metal walls. Install Ethernet cable from the router to the other two rooms and place WiFi access points in them.
Depends on the model. TP-Link makes several Archer WiFi access points that can be "daisy chained". Look at the Archer Ax21, for example.
Since the metal wall is what blocks WiFi signals, it might be possible to make a hole between rooms 2 & 3 and place one WiFi access point (literally) "in the hole" where it has an unobstructed view of both rooms.