Chevelle_Nut
Shop Foreman
My FIL, lives next door and is getting shoulder replacement surgery next week. Both my SIL and wife are planning on being over there a lot because he is a widower. Both of them can work from home. I was challenged to get Internet to his house, he does not have a computer or anything Internet connected.
I first thought about digging a trench and running Cat 6 in conduit to his house from our house but that would take a lot of work and materials plus I would have to drill through our basement and his crawlspace wall to get in the houses. That is also a way to permanent solution.
My old WIFI Access Device had age on it and with a 1 gig fiber in I was not getting the bandwidth. I didn't need a router for WIFI as I have a switch and firewall router, I just needed an access point. Business access points are much more expensive than home devices. I ended up going with a Netgear Nighthawk AX12 and am running it in Access Point Mode. The thing looks like Batman's plane but it has the range and I am getting 1 GIG thru put on Speedtest. I didn't need a Gaming WIFI device but it was the one rated with the most coverage. The gamer in the family, my son, is jealous, but he doesn't live at home.
I went and tested data and video streaming, it covers well past ours's and his property in the country. The true test will be a laptop in his house. Who knows, the old man may get a ROKU if all works out.
I first thought about digging a trench and running Cat 6 in conduit to his house from our house but that would take a lot of work and materials plus I would have to drill through our basement and his crawlspace wall to get in the houses. That is also a way to permanent solution.
My old WIFI Access Device had age on it and with a 1 gig fiber in I was not getting the bandwidth. I didn't need a router for WIFI as I have a switch and firewall router, I just needed an access point. Business access points are much more expensive than home devices. I ended up going with a Netgear Nighthawk AX12 and am running it in Access Point Mode. The thing looks like Batman's plane but it has the range and I am getting 1 GIG thru put on Speedtest. I didn't need a Gaming WIFI device but it was the one rated with the most coverage. The gamer in the family, my son, is jealous, but he doesn't live at home.
I went and tested data and video streaming, it covers well past ours's and his property in the country. The true test will be a laptop in his house. Who knows, the old man may get a ROKU if all works out.