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[MadHatter]

So in that case he would have to run his hard wire connections to the router.

Yes or put a switch in his attic and drop out from there.

[Mike D]

I have an EERO mesh system and it has been fantastic. I have 100% wifi signal in every room of my house, outside around the pool and even signal strong enough that my front gate to have wifi control up there. It’s ridiculously simple to install and I stream TV on more than one TV, surf, YouTube, etc while my son plays on his PS5 with virtually no buffering. And I’m rural with only a 25MB connection.

I have a hard wired gateway out in my shop, wired to another EERO unit in my garage/workshop then 2 beacons inside the house plus another one outside in a weatherproof enclosure for my wifi deer feeder camera.

I don’t understand why people were saying you need line of sight with the wireless beacons. None of mine are line of sight and are several rooms apart and have no trouble picking up full signal from the one closest to it.


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[JackRyan]

Hardwire will always be more reliable than wireless. If you can swing it I would run the lines from your router, not the NID. Having said that if you're going to go wifi go with a mesh system as already recommended. We have also deployed a lot of these mesh systems and they work very well.

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[MadHatter]

I have an EERO mesh system and it has been fantastic. I have 100% wifi signal in every room of my house, outside around the pool and even signal strong enough that my front gate to have wifi control up there. It’s ridiculously simple to install and I stream TV on more than one TV, surf, YouTube, etc while my son plays on his PS5 with virtually no buffering. And I’m rural with only a 25MB connection.

I have a hard wired gateway out in my shop, wired to another EERO unit in my garage/workshop then 2 beacons inside the house plus another one outside in a weatherproof enclosure for my wifi deer feeder camera.

I don’t understand why people were saying you need line of sight with the wireless beacons. None of mine are line of sight and are several rooms apart and have no trouble picking up full signal from the one closest to it.


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5ghz doesn't have much penetration.
A puck inside one building, connecting to another puck in a separate building a 100ft away, is less than ideal, especially if either have a metal skin on em.
Now your 2.4 band will probably get there, but I try and steer people away from 2.4 if possible.

[Justin Spies]

Yes or put a switch in his attic and drop out from there.

Forgive my ignorance, but what are you calling a switch?


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[Justin Spies]

Hardwire will always be more reliable than wireless. If you can swing it I would run the lines from your router, not the NID. Having said that if you're going to go wifi go with a mesh system as already recommended. We have also deployed a lot of these mesh systems and they work very well.

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Have you dealt with mesh system pinging to separate buildings? It would be signaling through two exterior walls(brick/hardie on the house and metal on the game room). Although, I could do one in a window of each building facing each other.


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[Mike D]

5ghz doesn't have much penetration.
A puck inside one building, connecting to another puck in a separate building a 100ft away, is less than ideal, especially if either have a metal skin on em.
Now your 2.4 band will probably get there, but I try and steer people away from 2.4 if possible.

Agree that why the connection between the shop and house is hard wired. My preference would have been to hard wire the entire system but I did not plan for such when building.


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[Mike D]

Have you dealt with mesh system pinging to separate buildings? It would be signaling through two exterior walls(brick/hardie on the house and metal on the game room). Although, I could do one in a window of each building facing each other.


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You’ll get much better stability and fast connection by hardwiring in that scenario.

There is outdoor direct burial CAT6 cable available but I personally would still run a conduit.


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[dclifton]

You’ll get much better stability and fast connection by hardwiring in that scenario.

There is outdoor direct burial CAT6 cable available but I personally would still run a conduit.


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DB dont mean $h!t to a gopher lol...

[MadHatter]

DB dont mean $h!t to a gopher lol...

Man you aint lying!
I require conduit 100% of the time.
The vegetable oil they use in some of these cables, to make the jacket is like a dinner bell.

[MadHatter]

Forgive my ignorance, but what are you calling a switch?


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Any little network switch should suffice.
It will go in your attic, connect to the dmarc, and then you drop your router out of one port, your shop out of the other, etc...

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[Chronotrigger]

I am wanting to get wifito my trophyroom/shop set up for a couple smart TVs. Consolidated communications upgraded our home today with fiber. I am jumping from 20m to 1gig of speed. He put a NID in my attic, can I run cat 5/6 directly from that NID down and out and underground to the trophyroom and just plug in an access point out there? Or do I have to come directly out of the home router and out there?

The run is probably 100' or so. Would a mesh system work just fine and not have to run wire?

Just curious, is this true fiber to prem?

[NelsonV]

Run a point-to-point link from your house to your shop. AP side of the PTP plugs directly into your router's Lan port. The other side of the PTP will run into the shop to its own router.