Need to get WiFi from house to shed 300 ft away

General
1

Hello there I am trying to get WiFi to my shed from my peplink balance 20x to my wife’s she shed that’s about 300 ft away from my modem/router

2

That’s quite a haul distance-wise. If there was any signal there at all log-normal fading would ensure a dis-satisfactory experience. My preferred solution would be to install a direct-bury cat 5e/6 cable and stick an AP out there. Or, failing that, I’d use a point-point RF link to “attach” the new AP. You could try an AP in mesh mode but I very much doubt it would work well.

1 Like
3

Use a LAN port, plug in a wireless bridge, configure it, add another wireless bridge in the shed. That’s basically how I have my trailer connected to my home router. I use a TP-Link EAP252-Outdoor, it’s screwed into a window frame in my garage, I’ve been using it for 5 years now. If speed isn’t a concern they have the really cheap EAP110-Outdoor, it’ll only get you probably 50-100Mbps usable but for $70 for a pair it’s darn cheap. I power mine with a passive PoE injector.

4

Thank you for the quick response and information. I went with your first opinion and got 250 ft of cat 5 Ethernet cable and a AP in the building. Just got done with the install and works great. Thank you again[quote=“Rick-DC, post:2, topic:49911, full:true”]
That’s quite a haul distance-wise. If there was any signal there at all log-normal fading would ensure a dis-satisfactory experience. My preferred solution would be to install a direct-bury cat 5e/6 cable and stick an AP out there. Or, failing that, I’d use a point-point RF link to “attach” the new AP. You could try an AP in mesh mode but I very much doubt it would work well.
[/quote]

Thank you went with the cat 5 cable and a AP. Just got done and it works great!

1 Like