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Metal building wifi
Another remote metal building question. i live on an acreage. Added a wavlink extender to my network at the house. Works good everywhere across the acreage, good signal, except wifi signal inside me...
Before ordering stuff, do some speed testing. Daisy chaining extenders drops speeds a lot and adds a lot of latency. (usually over 50% reduction each hop with standard single/dual band extenders). Take your extender and run an extension cord outside to use it, then test the speeds on the device connected to it. See what speeds you get and if they're usable for what you want it for. If so, great, use that option. If not, then we'd need to try something else.
Bear with me please, I have and xfinity gateway in the house. I added a wavlink wifi accesses point to it and that access point is delivering signal everywhere on the acreage. Then I put an old netgear extender I had that I used in the past. That extender is wifi and has no cable. I can take it outside the shop and it has a great signal. We were suggesting adding another wifi access point and connect it to the net gear in the shop.
So, I’m confused on what you suggest I take outside?
You have everything correct. Great overview. I'm just recommending before getting another access point, testing the speed of the one you currently have while outdoors. Since it'll be hardwired to the one inside, it'll give you a realistic speed of what you should expect indoors. Connect something to that extender and test the speeds before buying another one.
You want to see what actual speeds you're getting to see if it'll support what you're doing. If you're just streaming music in the building, 10mbps would be fine. If you're planning on streaming a single tv, 30-50mbps would be minimum. If you're setting up a gaming den/streaming room/2nd home for someone that will have multiple devices, then you'd want faster speeds/stability.
I'm just recommending doing some actual speed testing before buying another device.
Then I put an old netgear extender I had that I used in the past. That extender is wifi and has no cable.
The EX6200 has five ethernet ports on the back. Are you sure you have that model? There is a picture here:
- https://support.netgear.com/support/product/ex6200
