Outdoor Wireless Access Point with a 50m range?

Princey

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What's the best outdoor WAP with atleast a 50 range to connect to a BT Infinity router which will be indoors? It doesn't need to be fancy with tons of feature, it just needs to act like a normal WAP but with a great range to cover a small harbour.

Will I need to replace the router? Can I get away with using just a directional aerial?
 
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Why don't you look at having the device connected via Ethernet to your router and this device then positioned on the outside covering the area you want.

Ubiquiti do reasonable priced access points that can be powered over Ethernet too.
 
Princey said:
What's the best outdoor WAP with atleast a 50 range to connect to a BT Infinity router which will be indoors? It doesn't need to be fancy with tons of feature, it just needs to act like a normal WAP but with a great range to cover a small harbour.

Will I need to replace the router? Can I get away with using just a directional aerial?
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Clear line of sight (ie nothing in the way at all, it a straight line)

How high up is this or it 2 ft off the deck?

Power at the other end?

Budget?

24/7?
 
techmob said:
Why don't you look at having the device connected via Ethernet to your router and this device then positioned on the outside covering the area you want.

Ubiquiti do reasonable priced access points that can be powered over Ethernet too.
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Another vote for the Ubiquiti range. I have one of their indoor WAP's and they are a breeze to set up. They are not that cheap (circa £100 for the outdoor unit). These have reported range of 600ft, so should be plenty to cover a small harbour

From looking at the user guide (an personal experience with the indoor unit) this will need to be connected to the BT router via the Power Over Ethernet (PoE) adaptor that comes with it. This will live indoors and then you will have 1 x Ethernet cable feeding into the WAP which can be mounted on an external wall (plate, screws and rawplugs supplied) or on a pole using the supplied metal band.

You are supposed to be able to set up a link in the management software to Google Maps and then place the WAP on there. This then gives you a representation of the coverage of the unit. Haven't been able to get my indoor unit working with this, but is no great shakes for me that one
 
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From what I've seen, they're PtP with a directional arieal. I need the AP to cover around 60 degrees from the AP location. I have a budget of around £100. It needs to be able to work in AP Infrastructure mode so it's just a wireless extension of the existing Ethernet network.
 
Princey, the Unifi Outdoor has 360 degree coverage and can be used as a straight extension of the existing wireless network.

The indoor unit I have works a treat.

Not sure if I can link to the manufacturers website here due to competitor rules, but will trust you the link to the website so you can have a look.
 
Princey

Yeah that should work, but you will have to factor in the cost of the mounting bracket for the external antenna and cable, you are somewhere around £75.00 and that is discounting any shipping costs

Would appear to be a very similar solution to the Ubiquiti one except that the whole AP gubbins will be indoors with only wall penetration being the cable for your external aerial.

If your budget does stretch to the Ubiquiti one then that would be the one I would go for personally. As mentioned, they are a breeze to set up and a high quality product (no I don't work for them or a reseller, just really rate their kit) and you should get more of a throughput (300 as opposed to 150) too.
 
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