Extending wifi range with yagi aerials

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I've got a garage about half a mile from my house which I want to get connected to the net, with my house being fairly close and almost in line of sight I thought I could just extend the range of my router by connecting it to a yagi aerial, and at the garage end use a wifi card also connected to a yagi.

So the aerials came yesterday, I thought id just be able to unscrew the plastic aerial on the router and screw the new aerial on however i've taken off the plastic aerial and i'm just left with a wire, which is too thick to thread into the new one...Any ideas?!

I'm hoping the wifi card will be just a case of screwing the new one, but I doubt i'd be able to pick up the signal from my router at home with just that aerial, i'd need one on the router end too....

 

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Edit: Don't think you're meant to thread that wire into the aerial, the connector on the end looks like one of those screw types, same as what goes into cable modems/boxes etc. Need to see if there's a connector what I thread the wire into, and then screw that onto the aerial I think?

 

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I see, I presumed they'd all have some sort of universal fit lol. The yagis seem to be a female N type connection, not sure on the router, I unscrewed the plastic aerial and like i said i'm just left with a bit of trailing wire. It's a Netgear MR814v2

Not seen the card yet - it's just an old one a mates got laying around.

 

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Yeah I think you're right. How much are we talking for the 5GHz bridges? I know this setup works as my friend has a similar setup over a greater distance too. The aerials cost me next to nothing so buying another router which allowed me to plug in the yagi wouldn't be a great deal.

 

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I don't mind spending £150 or so for a "proper" setup, could you give me some model/ranges that you'd recommend me looking at? I came across the Ubiquiti NanoStation M5 AirMax but at around £250 that's out of budget.