Wifi sucks in an outside garage

RouterOS Wireless Networking
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A friend wants to improve his wifi smart phone connectivity in a garage separated from the house.
Is there any product one could stick at a window in the house facing the garage (somewhat directional antenna) that would improve the two way connectivity.
if not then side of outside of house. Lowest cost 5Ghz solution

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Hmmmm … some 5GHz AP with high gain antenna. E.g. SXTsq Lite5 with ROS license upgraded to L4. Or DISC Lite5 or DISC Lite5 ac or any of 5Ghz LHGs (again with ROS license upgraded).

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Okay, wasnt sure because its not a great distance we are talking across a yard.
So if it says CPE it means it can be used like an access point.

What does it mean upgrade to RoS 5? I have never worried about licenses for anything I have bought so far.
It comes with 3, is that not good enough to be an access point??

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You need a level 4 license for the device to act as an AP.

https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:License#License_Levels

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You can make 1 (one) client connection with L3 license. (“bridge” mode).
To avoid an $45 expensive L4 license (https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:License) , consider the SXT SA5 or SXT SA5 ac.

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I hope you have a permit for your WiFi doing that in the outdoor garage. The neighbors might complain to the police, about the waiting men in the driveway.

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???

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bpwl, could one use such a unit SXT SA5 ac on the inside of the house pointing at the garage through a window (like right close to the window)??

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msatter’s comment was related to your topic for this post

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You might be able, depending on coverage area and distance to the garage, use a wireless wire kit to connect the house and garage and use whatever AP you want in the garage for 2.4/5 g access.

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Pointing a high-gain antenna through a window might work well (if there is no thin-metal sunray screen in the glass).
Always remember the non-trivial working of a high-gain-antenna transmitter. Due to regulations the EIRP in the top direction is as high as the omnidirectional EIRP of a low gain antenna. The amount of emitted energy overall is much lower with high gain.
The gain of the high-gain antenna is in the receiving side !

And I agree with @biomesh, split the link task, from the AP task. The wifi requirements for both are each others opposite.
I do install SXTsq5ac-SXTsq5ac link, with a hap ac2 as AP for client service. Very cost effective, and great performance, with the SXTsq5ac outdoors.

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Oh ahhhh he was being disgusting, but very funny now I get it. :wink:
If I had said blowing, he would have been more accurate! Will have to watch my shortcuts for wireless internet …

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P2P outside. Then to a switch. With an AP inside.

Many garages or sheds tend to be metal skinned. Which makes service inside them require an access point inside them.

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There are lots of competing wifi networks in the area and thus thinking the wireless wire combo would be best.

Steps

  1. wire ethernet from living room to corner bedroom (through attic).
  2. Put one wireless wire antenna at corner bedroom window looking down and facing corner of garage (barely visible)
  3. Place other wireless wire on first garage but on the back wall of it - where the lower new garage sits behind
    the antennal would be attached to a pole - POLE would be attached on the back siding of the first garage which would stick out a few feet into open air and clear LOS from window and wired through the siding of first garage and then into second garage as there is easy routing of wires between them on the inside.
  4. Aim the two antennas at each other and in the second garage put any el cheapo wifi AP or AP/router (many toss perfectly good ones away - may give him one of my capacs gathering dust and destined for the garbage bin.)

BEFORE all that he is going to try to see if a $80 ebay dlink devo mesh 3 unit jobbie would work, one house, one in first garage and one in second garage.
I told him to get the same at best buy and return it, if it works, return it if it doesn work. Then he will know if the $80 is worth it or not on the used market vice a proper wireless wire solution.

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OR …

Steps:

  1. invest in a pickaxe
  2. dig a trench from house to the new garage
  3. lay fibre optics
  4. fill back the trench, seed some grass or wait for random weeds to grow
  5. connect fibre to appropriate equipment on both ends

Steps #4 and #5 can be done in reverse order or in parallel if better half agrees. Also details of step #4 depend on better half’s view on the matter.

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Or the mysterious Cube60Pro? http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/newsletter-june-2021-100/149797/1

Is for DIY using a POF (Plastic optical fiber) not easier to deploy than have that thin fiber end welded or polished?

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OR …

Steps:
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[]dig a trench from house to the new garage
[]lay fibre optics
[]fill back the trench, seed some grass or wait for random weeds to grow
[*]connect fibre to appropriate equipment on both ends
[/list]

Steps #4 and #5 can be done in reverse order or in parallel if better half agrees. Also details of step #4 depend on better half’s view on the matter.
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Deep layers of Hard packed gravel says NO!