Garden Home Office - Wireless Access Point from an IP Transmission Bridge

[Paul2407]

I'm currently on Superfast broadband, being upgraded to Full Fibre on Friday 17th October by a Sky engineer.

I live in a semi-detached house and have recently had a home office cabin installed in our garden, approximately 50 meters distance from the back of the house. Our broadband router (Sky Broadband Hub) is in the front room of the house and wifi currently doesn't reach the cabin.

I plan to run an ethernet cable (via a PoE power injector) to an IP transmission bridge transmitter at the rear of the house. A bridge receiver at the cabin end will terminate in an ethernet port switch in the cabin.

I plan to provide wired internet to my laptop and TV, but would also like wifi access. To enable wifi in the cabin;

a.) can I plug a wifi access point into an ethernet port in the cabin?

b.) do Sky provide a suitable wifi access point product? If not, which compatible product would be recommended?

c.) what do I need to do (if anything) to setup and 'mesh' the wifi networks and allow me to roam between both wireless access points (main router and cabin)?

Thanks in advance.

[Chrisee]

@Paul2407 Answers to your questtions

a) yes Access Points can be connected by ethernet its how they work.

b) Sky only provide WiFi extenders for use in your home but you can buy third party WiFi access points cheaply. The  price depends on the speed you need but for business use a simple WiFi5 unit should be ample. TP-Link kit is cheap and in my experiencevcreliable.

c) if yiur office. Is really 50m from your home's consumer unit the acess point wont need to form a mesh with your home network. A single standalone unit is best using a different SSID.

Hiwever your proposed sokution sounds like a complicated and expensive solution to a simple problem of getting a data connection to the garden office. The simplest and best solution is to run an Ethernet cable from the hub to the external building. External grade ethernet cable is widely available and although best laid in conduit  with the maiinsxsupply it can be directly buried later. There is no speed loss up to 100m on Cat5e cable or better. The next alternstive is powerline networking assuming the office is powered from your home's consumer unit but 50m is pushing it a bit so buy a kit online so it can go back under the statutory 14 days returns rule.  Powerline kits can be bought with built-in WiFi access points.

[Jon34]

I agree, your going to give yourself a massive headache using  a wireless transmitter/reciever, they need to be perfectly aligned, omni directional wouldnt perform that well 

one thing to bear inmind when using stuff like this, your downstream devices would be sharling a lower bandwidth connection.

wait till your install, if you are getting say an eero, just get a really long ethernet lead and buy an additional one

if not ask your isp if they provide access points that are compatible with the router

simpler, less problems

[JimM1]

@Paul2407 If you have mains power and are not a speed freak, powerline should be your first option as it is looking like that would be your quest test to see, something like the Tp-Link Powerline Adapters | TP-Link United Kingdom so take a look, W in front will be mixed wireless/wired units!