We are about to undertake some renovation in our main house, to avoid the endless dust etc we are moving to our gite which is approx 75m across the garden.
We have a good 1gb fibre service in the main house.
I would like to get the internet working in the gite as we will be there for 4-5 months.
Any ideas how to get internet across the garden at a distance of 75m? (Without a very very long patch lead!!)
I have tried powerline adaptors without success on a number of circuits.
Could a WiFi mesh network achieve this?
Help appreciated as we are due to move their early next week.
In theory Mesh wifi can do up to 660 ft (200 m) but it depends if it has to travel through thick walls or not to get there.
I would have thought that you would have a sporting chance with a modern mesh system.
I think you can get add-on antennae for the boxes as well but I have no personal experience of them.
Otherwise it would be a case of running an ethernet cable (or perhaps fibre optic?) from one to t’other inside a buried plastic pipe. Ethernet can do 100m max - repeaters (amplifiers) can be used.
But I’d try mesh wifi first - if you buy the kit from Amazon you can send it back if it doesn’t work!
Maybe our resident techies will have other suggestions…
I doubt a 30 euro Mesh from Action probably won’t. But properly placed they can have decent range.
Your first “unit” has to be plugged into the router normally - defining it’s position to a degree. To get decent range you ideally want a window and some height if possible - so you want your second unit near a window pointing at the gite - then your final box in the gite.
Your second option - depending on your mobile reception - get a MiFi or LTE router (LTE means uses a SIM) and a non contract SIM with data plan MiFi are cheap these days - half decent routers start at 80’ish (Tenda is a decent budget brand). It’s a certain cost but it’s a painless solution
Not a techie at all but I had a wifi operated doorbell camera fitted to my gate post a few weeks back that works via Alexa indoors with a screen etc to see who is there. The wifi was missing about 2m in strength so we ordered a booster that plugs indoors to extend it. Now I get the bloke over the road getting in his car as well as everything passing which is still about 5m from the camera on the gate post so it definately extended the wifi which is fibre optic and was less than €40 from Amazon. Don’t know if this would help at all!
In theory this should also be an option but really has to be on the same physical cable and traversing RCDs and breakers tends to reduce the speed a lot or prevents hte connection owrking at all.
How does power get to the gîte - from the main house or its own supply?
A 4G service (can’t remember who suggsted it) would have the advantage of quick set-up, can use your phone as a “hot spot” to test if is at least feasible.
You may well get more out of decent quality Cat5e or Cat6a at 1Gbps - though the price of 100m of the stuff would keep you in 4/5G Internet for many months
My TPLink mesh system claims that it can cover up to 300m, but I have my doubts. It already struggles a bit with two interior walls, although given that the fibre internet connection is constantly less than 800Mbps download, and less than 500Mbps upload, I can’t really complain about the mesh not delivering!
I have direct line of sight between the buildings and this will be a long term solution.
Yesterday I ordered a 4g Bouygues box but I will return it (I don’t actually think we have good 4g coverage in our area with them) - this would have been a short term solution but by th we time I have paid for 5 months I could have paid for the WiFi bridge.
I use single CPEs to provide WiFi coverage to traditional stone wall gites 50-60 metres away which works well enough for WhatsApp and browsing indoors.
I look forward to hearing how your WiFi setup goes. We had a similar required over a distance of 50 meters. We went for a wired solution 50 Meters of cat 6 cable 45 Euros and a TP-Link Routeur WiFi N300 for 25 Euros both purchased from amazon.fr and delivered within a couple of days. No loss of speed between the two networks and very simple setup which just involved plugging the WAN port of the second network into the LAN port of the first network (a LiveBox in my case).
For a proof of concept I mounted one of the access points on a floodlight stand (now mounted on the roof) - all was working so I then followed this video for the setup:
Renamed the SSIDs and passwords to match the ones elsewhere in the house - now have internet at approx 300mbps in the gite but also the garden is covered as both units are WiFi access points also.
