Help me please get internet in my garage!

[charltonfan1]

Hi all,

Hoping someone can help me as I'm tearing my hair out failing to get internet in my garage which is 40m or so from the router with a couple of brick walls in the way.

I first tried powerline adaptors as the garage has power (these ones which are a few years old now https://www.bt.com/help/broadband/broadband-extender-500-flex-kit-for-bt-tv) and an access point I connected to the powerline in the garage and it worked fine. Speeds dropped from ~50Mbps to ~14 Mbps but was happy enough with this. The data light changed between green, orange and red randomly suggesting the powerline connection wasn't great.

After a day or so the access point lost connection to the router and after I reset the powerlines it came back up.

The next day my devices I was connecting to the AP couldn't get IP addresses.

I tried another AP (this time an unused BT Smarthub which I put in AP mode). Then had same issues with dodgy connection over the next few days.

Next I tried getting a WIFI extender ( https://www.tp-link.com/uk/home-networking/range-extender/re305/) plugged into the socket in the house nearest to the garage (30m away) but the signal wouldn't stretch through the garage wall

So run out of ideas and wondering if better quality powerline adaptors would make a difference?

Any advice appreciated, thanks

 

[charltonfan1]

Do you not recon you could run Ethernet cable to the garage?

Not without disrupting the garden and ******* off the wife!

 

[charltonfan1]

Lol tell her it’s electric cable ha ha would only need 1 pipe run have you got any pics of distance? Only other option other than power lines is point to point wifi

Ok thank you.

Are newer powerline adaptors going to make a difference? Mine are AV500 so AV600 or AV1000 ?

It's strange my existing ones work some of the time. Is this behaviour consistent with wiring problems between the house and the garage

The house was built 4 years ago so not old wiring

 

[charltonfan1]

Unify AC LR or one of their outdoor solutions should work if unobstructed by other buildings etc.

ok i'll look into those thanks. Guessing Long range would cover the distance im dealing with?

A new build should work spot on with power lines. If you having issues with AV500s you may still get issues with AV1000s. Do you have a budget in mind or do you not know someone who has a set you could test with first?

Budget is as little as possible so your trial idea is a good one, will ask around.

It would be good to know the cause of the sporadic behaviour as it could be a router setting?

 

[charltonfan1]

I have never known the router to be the cause of a power line issue. It’s usually the powerlines at fault in a new build.

What router you got?

https://static.tp-link.com/Archer VR900(EU)_V3_Datasheet.pdf

 

[charltonfan1]

Thanks all for your ideas and input.

I had a breakthrough last night with some elite jerryrigging skills. I found that if i used an extension power cable and had the Wifi Extender placed just outside the garage, it was close enough to pickup a connection from my router and then distribute it through the open garage door.

I am just needing a web connection to Run Zwift on my bike turbo trainer and allow me to mirror my phone/ipad to the TV i've put on the wall and Zwift uses very little bandwith so doesnt need a fast connection. I had been using a Fire Stick to mirror but found my old Apple TV gen 1 to be much better last night.

This is a temporary solution and shows that if i got an outdoor Wifi extender and stuck it ouside the garage this would work and quite possibly be the cheapest/quickest option.

I appreciate that wifi extenders are not always reliable so can't expect the world.