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Hi,
I have a working wifi link between my house and a summerhouse in the garden which I use an office, however it now sounds like both me and my partner are going to be working from home longer term now due to COVID-19 so I need to connect 2 laptops up instead of 1.
Over the years, I've now gotten massively out of touch with this sort of thing, would appreciate some advice!
The external wifi AP on the shed (Ubquiti LocoM5) only has one Ethernet port on it, but I now need to connect two laptops to it, the easiest thing to do I think would be to buy a LAN hub/switch and plug that between the laptops and the external wifi AP ? However it would be good to have a wifi AP (Hotspot ?) in the summerhouse as well as wired connections - what the best way of doing this ?
Can I re-use one an old wifi broadband router for instance to act at some kind of wifi/ethernet hub ? Both of our work laptops are very heavily restricted on customizing any network settings, but will accept connecting to a standard home wired/wireless connection. Or is there another device that I should be looking for ?
Silly diagram if it helps, I think I've got the terminology right.....

I have a working wifi link between my house and a summerhouse in the garden which I use an office, however it now sounds like both me and my partner are going to be working from home longer term now due to COVID-19 so I need to connect 2 laptops up instead of 1.
Over the years, I've now gotten massively out of touch with this sort of thing, would appreciate some advice!
The external wifi AP on the shed (Ubquiti LocoM5) only has one Ethernet port on it, but I now need to connect two laptops to it, the easiest thing to do I think would be to buy a LAN hub/switch and plug that between the laptops and the external wifi AP ? However it would be good to have a wifi AP (Hotspot ?) in the summerhouse as well as wired connections - what the best way of doing this ?
Can I re-use one an old wifi broadband router for instance to act at some kind of wifi/ethernet hub ? Both of our work laptops are very heavily restricted on customizing any network settings, but will accept connecting to a standard home wired/wireless connection. Or is there another device that I should be looking for ?
Silly diagram if it helps, I think I've got the terminology right.....

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