Extending internet

rabb11d

rabb11d

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I'm trying to help a buddy from wasting money with his internet provider.
He currently has fiber and using the provided router (for x a month). He also has a detached garage his wife uses for work and a barn he wants to get internet to.
They had someone quote running wires etc. Told him we could do it and save some coin.
My question comes what is the best way to do this. He wants to ditch the router he is paying monthly for and get his own.
My first thought was put a mesh in his house, run cable to other two buildings with their own wifi set up. Also saw wireless bridges which may save buried cable. Basically I know enough to be dangerous but not enough know how to get his right.
So please steer me down the right path.
 
Running Cat6 wired cable vs something else (network over power line, wifi bridge, etc) really depends on the setup of the land. How far it is between buildings and such.
 
You don't want Ethernet or Wi-Fi for the outbuildings. Do it right with fiber. It'll cost less than $100 per run (most of that's the Ethernet to fiber adapters), never have to worry about lightning, interference, etc.

Wired access points in the house and in the outbuildings. Unifi or Google are great, there may be other options.
 
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He may have no choice but to use the provided router, depending on how the fiber from the service provider is terminated. You can put your own router inboard of it (and set the first router to put it in the DMZ), but maybe not necessary.
 
Would help to know the general layout of the house, whether they use WiFi calling and/or VoIP, where high bandwidth devices like 4k rokus are, etc. You can work up some pretty specific suggestions at that point. We were lucky that our house is a ranch on a crawlspace, so I can get an Ethernet cable absolutely anywhere I want it, but that's not always the case. If it's a multistory house that's kinda spread out, you could focus the best WiFi service wherever the best TV is and do wireless backhaul for other floors, more remote ends of the house, etc.
 
They are just your average users. Streaming TV, kids with tablets.
The fiber is terminated outside the house with a cat cable running in the house to plug into whatever router. This is the layout of the property. They don't need anything super fancy just something that is simple that gets them wireless internet to those buildings.
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So would it work to use something like this?

Bridge


Then use a mesh system and put one of the 3 in each building? With a wired backhaul to each point to point deal?



So if I understand this the bridge takes the place of running wires from each satellite?



Seems too simple.
 
I did ubiquiti nanobeam to another nanobeam.

Site A with internet is a modem and a router. I hard wired the nanobeam to the router. Site B is a nanobeam hard wired to a switch. On that switch my TVs, NVR, and AP are all hardwired. The AP is an access point that gives me wifi at Site B.

This was all at the very edge of my networking knowledge. There are multiple brands that will do this. Ubiquiti has the least customer support. I watched a lot of YouTube.

But, it has been well worth it.
 
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