Cheap & easy AP to push Wifi outside - TP-Link EAP110?

Soldato
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Hi, I'm after if anyone has used the TP-Link
EAP110-Outdoor AP
https://www.tp-link.com/uk/business-networking/outdoor-ap/eap110-outdoor/

Friend has Wifi, probably a standard ADSL connection type router and wants to get a signal outside to his garage/shed (to run mobile/appletv/laptop through).
My current thinking is to bang a hole in the wall and use something like the TP-Link EAP110-Outdoor, mounted on the outside of the house somewhere towards he wants to use his devices. Probably use a TP-Link POE injector and then I'm just running 1 cat5 cable to do the job.

Something like: https://www.tp-link.com/uk/business-networking/accessory/tl-poe150s/

Throughput doesn't have to be massive, he's quite rural so would guess his ADSL less than 50mbps and this is for running an online cycling platform (Zwift) - which has quite low data throughput requirements (I can see the EAP110 isn't Wireless N etc).

Thoughts? Anything better or a better way of doing this for similar money (<£100) I should be looking at instead?

Thanks
 
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Wow, apologies totally missed the revival and further questions! Nothing really to add anyway, other than my friends EAP225 is still working well.

Installed it outside on quite an exposed edge of his house which 'catches the rain' (mid-wales hillside cottage). Used standard CAT5e and fully expect it to begin struggling at some point - will then replace with shielded/outside graded cable when it does.

Has been faultless - signal range better than expected. Although the bright white colour and LED on it do make it really obvious at night it's there.
 
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