joining two wifi hubs it help needed.

[diesel des]

I have bt broadband at home and use a bt type 2 hub to connect with WiFi to the net. I'm getting infinity installed so the current hub modem WiFi thing will be no longer used. My thoughts are that I have no WiFi in my garage about 100m away from the house. It would be handy to check things on the net while working at the car. Also I have no 3g signal coverage at home or garage.

I have cat 5 cable running from the house to the garage, so can I install the old bt hub thing in the garage and use the cat 5 to send the internet from the house to its WiFi.

If not what do I need. I would eventually like to fit a CCTV camera system to the garage and connect it to the hub in garage with cat 5 and look at the pics from the internet if required.

Cheers des.

[Colesy]

I have bt broadband at home and use a bt type 2 hub to connect with WiFi to the net. I'm getting infinity installed so the current hub modem WiFi thing will be no longer used. My thoughts are that I have no WiFi in my garage about 100m away from the house. It would be handy to check things on the net while working at the car. Also I have no 3g signal coverage at home or garage.

I have cat 5 cable running from the house to the garage, so can I install the old bt hub thing in the garage and use the cat 5 to send the internet from the house to its WiFi.

If not what do I need. I would eventually like to fit a CCTV camera system to the garage and connect it to the hub in garage with cat 5 and look at the pics from the internet if required.

Cheers des.

The techincal term for what you want to do to the BT hub is "bridge" it. Not all modems/hubs can be bridged though so google "bridge" & the model number of your modem/hub and see what comes up. If it can't be bridged I'd just buy a router which you can pick up for ~£20 for a perfectly good one. Depending on the router you get you'd then have another wireless & wired network running from the garage, linked to your main network via the Cat5.

Hope that helps.

[mcandmar]

At 100m you should get a good wifi signal as is, i can sit inside a car across the street and use my wifi without any issue. Failing that just plug another base station into the cat5 as above.

[diesel des]

Thanks colesy. So worst case is a need a bridgeable WiFi router. Will google my bt hub. Mcandmar, 1m thick stone walls slow the WiFi up a bit. Cheers des

[mcandmar]

1 meter, thats not a garage, thats a bunker!

[SteveH]

Anything over 100Mtrs on Cat5e isn't recommended, so you may find the signal is incoherent by the time it reaches your garage and the router wont make contact with your BT homehub. Ensure the cable is shielded and not run past fluorescent lights on the route, avoid sharp bends and kinks in the cable if possible. Suck it and see, but I wouldn't spend on kit until you know it's going to work.

[Jamo]

What you need is a dedicated wifi bridge repeater
It picks up your existing signal and boosts it without a cat 5 connection
Ive installed many
I'll put a link up when I'm back from the nec

[diesel des]

Yea bride WiFi router sounds nice and easy. Would love a link to a good one. Cheers.

[audinut]

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[Neutech]

Wireless Bridge as mentioned

http://www.faculty-x.net/Engenius%20outdoor%20long%20range%20wireless%20bridges.htm

A pair will give you a secure network

The CCTV camera your talking about, IP or Analogue?

If analogue you can use the Cat5 you already have in there and Balun both ends and that will carry the analogue signal no probs

[dest]

Or you could modify your BT homehub for a few quid!
I got two external wifi aerials on mine now.
Only takes 10 mins to do, and now our wifi reaches more than twice as far as it originally did

[diesel des]

Thanks for the input guys. Plenty of food for thought. I like the idea of the WiFi bridge, as I wouldn't need to pull cat 5 into hard to get places.