Second wifi line, any advice please?!

[curlytobiano]

Morning all. please forgive a dull newby question, I am not a gamer (though I am a Trekkie) but I can see you guys know what you are talking about! I'm trying to get broadband connected in a log cabin (where I am living for lockdown ) in the garden of my daughters cottage. There is only 1 postal address and not a separate one for cabin. cottage has Vodafone b/band. Cabin has had b/band before but not with us and has an access point on the wall. when I ring Vodafone they say I'll have to have an engineer (i.e. after lockdown) as they cannot tell which of the 2 connections to the postal address is the one to activate and might just disconnect the existing one instead of activating the 2nd one. (sadly all too believable)
I tried online chat with Openreach :/ not much help either.

Any suggestions please?

 

[bremen1874]

How far between the buildings?

Do you have line of sight?

Is running cables between the buildings possible?

 

[curlytobiano]

thanks Bremen, I possibly could get a cable between. the router is probably only 10 yards from the cabin (obviously there are walls in between) but I have the technical knowhow of a teabag so this would mean I'd still have to have someone over to do it. I don't even know if you mean an internet cable or an electric cable lol!

 

[WJA96]

Mikrotik Wireless Wire.

https://linitx.com/product/mikrotik-wireless-wire-pre-configured-60ghz-link---rbwapg-60ad-kit/15214

 

[Biz.Kid09]

If the distance is that short and you can, just drill a hole through the wall and put an ethernet cable through it. In the shed just have the cable plug into a switch and then you have a load of ethernet ports. If you want Wifi you can always just use an extender which is basically a little box you pair to the vodafone router and then just plug it in somewhere in the cabin. If the distance is literally a few metres then that will work fine!

 

[curlytobiano]

wow thanks for that WJA96. I will have a look at that.

 

[curlytobiano]

brill thanks Biz.Kid09 thats also v helpful. I have got an extender at the moment but it is very patchy.

 

[Biz.Kid09]

brill thanks Biz.Kid09 thats also v helpful. I have got an extender at the moment but it is very patchy.

Which do you have? you can certainly get more powerful/expensive ones. If you can run a cable then that will give you the best possible speed and reliability.

 

[WJA96]

Cable is by far the best option.

 

[curlytobiano]

brill thats v helpful. at the moment my extender is a DLink which I bought about 4 years ago! I tried a BrosTrend one but it didn't seem to work. I like the cable idea, will look into it. thank you all

 

[WJA96]

If you’re going to run cable it really needs to be external grade. If it’s going on or in the ground then you either need to bury it in conduit or use the specialist ‘direct burial’ cable. Once you’ve don’t that then it can be very straightforward. A 25m/30m/50m flat Pre-made cable would go under carpet or run round the edge of a room then under a window-ledge then across the gap (preferably in conduit) then under the next window-sill and into an access point or router in your cabin.

 

[curlytobiano]

If you’re going to run cable it really needs to be external grade. If it’s going on or in the ground then you either need to bury it in conduit or use the specialist ‘direct burial’ cable. Once you’ve don’t that then it can be very straightforward. A 25m/30m/50m flat Pre-made cable would go under carpet or run round the edge of a room then under a window-ledge then across the gap (preferably in conduit) then under the next window-sill and into an access point or router in your cabin.

Thank you. thats very helpful too.