WiFi Extender

[Phil Ward]

Morning SMUGs

We’ve just followed the heard and built a garden office/studio. We’ve successfully connected the studio to our router in the house via armoured CAT5E cable, but we also want our existing WiFi network to be available in there.it’s about 30m from the router so the WiFi signal is very weak/non-existant at that distance).

I’ve tried using a Devolo WiFi/ethernet over mains device (Devolo Magic 2 WiFi) but the mains connection to the studio is so long and tortuous that the network speeds it can provide are really slow, so even though it creates the WiFi network, it’s pretty much useless.

I’m assuming there’s a product out that there could connect to a network switch in the studio and simply generate a local mirror of the home WiFi network. Does such a thing exist?

Some suggestions would be much appreciated.

Cheers
Phil

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[Sam - MacAmbulance]

Hi Phil

Do you already have a switch in the garden office? If not, you could buy a PoE switch which will power a Unifi wifi access point without the need for another power adapter. 

I have one of these powering two access points in my flat https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0769C24T1/ 

The newer Unifi model : https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ubiquiti-UniFi-Lite-Access-Point/dp/B08T6CKG5B

Older but probably just as good (I have two of these) : https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ubiquiti-Networks-UAP-AC-LITE-Access-Point/dp/B016K4GQVG

The unifi adapter can be configured easily via an iOS app on your phone.

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[Jason Kitcat]

I have had a lot of success in different settings with Eero devices. 

All the best, Jason 

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[Phil Ward]

Hi Sam & Jason,

I got one of the Ubiquiti Unifi Lite access points (from box.co.uk) and it works well. The only disappointment was that it doesn't seem possible to create a Wifi network with the same name as the existing one (which is vaguely visible in the studio but too weak to be useful). Presumably two networks with the same name conflict?

Cheers

Phil

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[Sam - MacAmbulance]

You can do yes, the only problem with that is if you have two different wifi networks with unrelated access points, there’s no handover if a wifi client is closer to one base station or the other. You can end up joining the network with a poor signal and slow connection because it chooses the wrong base station.

You could get another Unifi base station but you’d also then need a Unifi controller to enable all the features like access point handover.

I’d say you’re best off with different SSIDs on the networks, it’s less convenient but you always know which adapter you’re connected to. Takes less than 10 precious seconds to switch networks.

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