Am I right in thinking there are one or two people on here who are knowledgeable about wifi/networking?
I'd like to increase WiFi coverage to the workshop.
At the moment, I've only got a single BT Hub (6 I think), but once the existing contract is up I want to go for full mobile broadband for better speeds, so it's days are numbered.
Depending on where you stand in the workshop, and how good whatever device you're using is, you can get wifi if the wind blows the signal in the right direction. The location of the BT Hub involves the signal having to go through 2 brickwalls to get outside the house, so it's never going to be great.
What I was thinking, was if I was to get an access point like this - https://www.broadbandbuyer.com/products/23765-ubiquiti-uap-ac-pro/
and mount it to the side of the chimney in the roof, it would only have a single layer of tiles to pass through, and would also hopefully boost the signal throughout the house.
Then, once I switch to mobile broadband, it will hopefully just be a case of swapping routers, without reconfiguring all the wifi.
Will this plan work?
I had been considering a point to point link, but it's only 50m, and I'm sure a single decent access point would manage to save on complexity.
I'd like to increase WiFi coverage to the workshop.
At the moment, I've only got a single BT Hub (6 I think), but once the existing contract is up I want to go for full mobile broadband for better speeds, so it's days are numbered.
Depending on where you stand in the workshop, and how good whatever device you're using is, you can get wifi if the wind blows the signal in the right direction. The location of the BT Hub involves the signal having to go through 2 brickwalls to get outside the house, so it's never going to be great.
What I was thinking, was if I was to get an access point like this - https://www.broadbandbuyer.com/products/23765-ubiquiti-uap-ac-pro/
and mount it to the side of the chimney in the roof, it would only have a single layer of tiles to pass through, and would also hopefully boost the signal throughout the house.
Then, once I switch to mobile broadband, it will hopefully just be a case of swapping routers, without reconfiguring all the wifi.
Will this plan work?
I had been considering a point to point link, but it's only 50m, and I'm sure a single decent access point would manage to save on complexity.