Satellite to Outbuildings

I live on a farm and have recently installed a satellite internet

connection in our home office. I would like to set up a wireless

connection between the home office (S side of house) to the scale shed

(N of house) and to the shop office (N of house, N side of metal

building). The two remote computers are older and are only being used

to order parts / check weather on-line (dial-up). The farthest

distance is from the office to the shop office - about 600ft.

I have a Linksys WRT54G broadband router in the office. It works

beautifully with my laptop.

Using powerlines is not an option - I have separate drops / meters for

the hour and outbuildings.

Is there a simple and inexpensive way to set this network up?

thanks

lisa

Reply to
LisaH
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Perhaps. The CPE (can be configured as an access point) in the link below could be mounted outside the house on the south side but aimed toward the other buildings. Or, it could be mounted inside in an upper window on the north side, aimed north. 600' would be no problem if there's no overpowering obstructions. You probably could connect with a laptop with no additional antennas in the other buildings, but a rubber ducky device would be better.

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Reply to
Rôgêr

This is a simple solution. Have several people using these at a lot farther distance.

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Reply to
Ed Williams

Maybe a couple of Linksys range extenders.

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Christian

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