More robust / rugged router for garage

Flake87

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I have a detached garage which has an ethernet cable run between it and the house. It is a reasonable building with a tile roof dry, but not heated, as such it is a more hostile environment than many of the home routers appear to be designed for.

The intention is to install it around 10 - 12foot up, maybe wall mounted but no necessarily. Will a conventional router survive this environment, or is there a more rugged device available for such places. I've never seen such a thing so I'm a little at a loss here.
 
ChrisD. said:
To replace the router in your house? Or in addition to? In which case you'll need a wireless access point and not a router - they're different things.
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Probably right but most routers are switchable to allow both options and still maintain the flexibility. The ISP box is in Modem mode to an 8 way switch.
 
alex24 said:
Sounds like you want an outdoor wireless AP, which would be a lot easier and cheaper to find. I don't recall ever seeing an outdoor router.

If your modem is currently set to modem mode, what is doing the routing/DNS/DHCP on your network today?
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There's an 8 port router / switch without WiFi doing that the WAP routers plug into that and yes they are routers set to WAP.

I think probably Caged has the thoughts I have, that an ordinary home router set to WAP is going to be able to survive in what is not exactly an outdoor environment, shouldn't get wet, but might get a bit cold at times. UK weather doesn't normally get much below zero and not for prolonged times so probably just a cheap one would do the job.
 
It appears that there are devices like the Draytek AP 903 which offer Poe, at least in to power the device but it would appear not available to power other devices. Is there a WAP with PoE out to kill two birds with one stone? The AP 903 is not a cheap device at £135 but perhaps cost effective if it could combine PoE and an access point.
 
Well I bought this one from China in the end:

http://en.comfast.com.cn/index.php?m=content&c=index&a=show&catid=14&id=51

An odd piece of kit, and there doesn't appear to be anything else quite like it on the market. Very small, the box is only about 7.5cm x5cm or 3" x 2" in old money, there's a switch on the side for mini router, repeater (extender), or WAP, and a WAN & one LAN on the underside. It does get a little warm probably down to the size and hopefully this should help if temperatures do fall.

It seems to have been sold in Germany but not the UK. The reviews all seem pretty positive and it's up and running, but not sited in the right place yet so it's difficult to comment on the range. It's a pretty cheap & cheerful thing which is what I needed it cost £27.05 including shipping and taxes, time will tell if it survives!
 
WJA96 said:
Oh. 5.8GHz eh? Quality marketing. I’m sure you’ll be delighted with it.
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It's actually 5.18 - 5.825 GHz and 100mW output. Seems to work OK, but there's little point putting an expensive bit of kit in there if it's going to fail it's a trial run if you like, and if it works then fine, but it's so cheap it won't matter too much if it doesn't.
 
Just as addition 5.8 GHz is actually 802.11n

802.11n: 2.4GHz & 5GHz bands: 802.11n equipment is made for either 2.4GHz or 5.8 frequency band: 5.8 is typically much less cluttered with signal-traffic.

5Ghz is 802.11ac
 
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