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WiFi configuration questions

Aug 2, 2014 10:24AM PDT

Hello - We have a WiFi router in the house for our laptop, smartphones, and tablet. It works well, even out into the yard 50' or so. The issue is when I am in my shop out in the steel-sided and roofed pole barn. It's only 35' away from the house, but the steel blocks the WiFi signal. I can pick up the house network if I step to the overhead garage door. But I'd like to have wireless inside too. There are open ethernet ports on the cable modem and on the wireless router, and I have a CAT 6 cable pulled out to the shop through a buried 4" pipe. My question is, what electronic device do I need to put in the shop? Looking at vendors, there are hundreds available... I think I just want to extend the house WiFi, not set up a whole new network. Thanks for any specific advice. cYa, Jim

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Let me be specific.
Aug 2, 2014 10:32AM PDT

Now it will take a few parts, cable and power and configuration (which I'd skip on) but in short you need a WiFi client device on out side like the WNCE2001. That gets you an Ethernet connection to run into the shed and then about a 20 buck WiFi router configured as a WAP. That's one way. The other way is a powerline WiFi bridge. Here's one.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HSQAIQU/ref=CNET

The second setup requires so little network skill that I think it's the best of the two ideas.
Bob

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you could probably do away with the WNCE2001
Aug 4, 2014 8:54AM PDT

as you already have ethernet pulled to the barn and just go with the Cheap wireless router configured as a WAP, as per Bob.

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