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Best Mesh Router for metal barn
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Re: Best Mesh Router for metal barn
The problem isn't the extender as the EAX80 is one of the best extenders you can get. Its the metal walls. Metal does an excellent job of blocking wifi. You could have the best router/satellite and not penetrate it decently.
Best bet?
1. run a hardwired connecting from the home to the barn with an underground or even over ground cable.
2. use a point to point system that outputs an ethernet connection. You'd have the system on the outside of the barn with an ethernet then ran into the barn and connected to an access point or extender in access point mode.
3. you could try a powerline or moca (ethernet over coax) system to get a connection into the barn and then connect the access point to that.
4. I've seen people actually get it done by not going through the metal but having an extender placed in a window with direct line of sight to the home/router. that way the signal is passing through the glass and not the metal. (done this myself)
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If you put an antenna outside the walls, what broadcasts internally to the walls?
And if you buy a router just for this task and another for inside, it'd be better off going with the system designed for point to point as it'll have higher bandwidth and lower latency
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Re: Best Mesh Router for metal barn
Here is what I read…
https://smallbusiness.chron.com/connect-wireless-router-external-antenna-60161.html
Is this not possible?
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You could potentially do that. But the antenna is send/receive. And if its on the external side of the building, what broadcasts inside it the building as the metal is still going to be blocking it from reaching inside the building?
Are you going to hardwire a router/extender to the router to act as the access point inside the building?
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Re: Best Mesh Router for metal barn
thanks for link I was looking for this answer.
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