Satellite to Outbuildings

Mar 23, 2005 3 Replies

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


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

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Maybe a couple of Linksys range extenders.

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