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Metal pole barn
I have a metal pole barn/garage, which is only maybe 50' from my house, that I'm having trouble getting wifi into. I bought a R7000P Nighthawk to extend my coverage from my house but that didn't help...
I recommend since the bar is make of metal, that you run a CAT6A STP cable from the main building out to this barn. Then connect up a router and configure it for AP mode. Then you'll get good wifi at the barn area.
Thanks for the reply, but as stated in original post, I unfortunately do not have the option to run a wire.
Netgear's Airbridge is a wireless bridge setup.
You'd get 2 of them.
1 you'd mount on the house and point at the garage
the other you'd put on the garage.
The you'd use a wireless access point inside the garage to connect to the bridge on the garage.
The metal is going to block signals. So you need something to get the signal to the garage and then something in the garage to connect to that device and rebroadcast it.
- Thank you, that sounds simple enough! The product you mentioned is unavailable though, could you or someone else recommend a different product? Thanks again.
Might look up Air Bridge WiFi on Amazon and see whats available.
