Help with what gear to buy

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I am looking to connect my house with two outbuildings which are about 200 feet away, and at about a 75 degree angle from the house. Clear line of site. I have mesh in the house, and a fiber connection I am using to provide Internet.

I am picturing a PTmP where I have one unit on the house and two receivers (one in each outbuilding). Basically need WiFi for laptops / Internet use in each building.

Question #1: What gear do I need? I am assuming I’d buy a 60GHz PTMP device for the house and one “receiver” for each building. Not trying for the cheapest solution but not trying to waste money either. As it will be laptop use vs. cameras, was thinking 1GB transfer.

Question #2: If my house “wifi” is named “My WiFi” as there a way that these devices propagate that like an access point? Maybe said differently - I am assuming I need to put a WiFi device in each of the outbuildings. I am not clear if these are config’d as an access point using the same name (i.e. My WiFi) or if they would be their own WiFi (i.e. My WiFi Bldg 1, My WiFi bldg 2).

Thank you in advance!!

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  1. The 75° angle between both outbuildings is too high for any of MT 60GHz products, these peak at 60° beam width for wAP 60G family. If you want to stick with Mikrotik offerings, then you’ll have to make two independent point-to-point links, one per outbuilding, in which case you’d better aim at antennae with narrower beam to reduce possible interference between both links (also plan for decent physical distance between both antennae on main building to reduce interference between these two).

  2. If you connect outbuildings transparently on layer 2 (ethernet), which various PtP products aim at, then the outbuildings will become full members of main LAN … as if they were connected to main building by cable. Then you’re free to use any kind of setup of wireless network you want, you can use CAPsMAN (at main building) to control outbuildings’ CAPs. Or you can configure those APs manually, but if you use identical security settings (SSID, password, …), then wireless stations will connect to those APs without any problem. If you’ll go for CAPsMAN solution with moderm AP devices (ax or ac), then mobility between coordinated APs will be even better (due to working 802.11 r/k/v).

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Awesome - thank you @mkx for the very clear and thorough reply!