Broadband to external office cabin

[MojitoBurrito]

Hi folks,

We have just had a cabin built in the garden and need to get reliable broadband to it.  The wifi isn't great from the BT hub in the house, even with a wi-fi booster plug it's slow and often cuts out, it's needed for reliable zoom calls etc.

When the cabin was built we had the electrician install a network point which runs into the house next to the hub. My guessing was that I could connect the hub into this and then have (pure guess) another hub the other end as a kind of hard wired extension?  Just really need to know what hardware I would need etc.

Cheers.

[Keith_Beddoe · Accepted solution]

@MojitoBurrito 

Welcome to this user forum.

Its much simpler than that, all you need to do is to plug in a wireless access point into the end of the Ethernet cable in the cabin, and connect the other end of the Ethernet cable into a port on the home hub.

This would be suitable.

https://www.tp-link.com/uk/home-networking/access-point/tl-wa901n/

[licquorice]

Yes, just connect the Ethernet socket next to the hub to one of the LAN ports on the hub and connect a wireless access point (WAP) in the cabin. Something like this https://www.tp-link.com/uk/home-networking/access-point/tl-wa901nd/ if you only need single band wifi.

[Paul608085]

When you say that the electrician installed a "network point" in the cabin, do you mean an ethernet cable? ie is there an RJ45 plug or socket at each end? If so, then you will not need any extra hardware - if there are RJ45 pugs on both ends of the cable, and you have a spare port on your BT Hub, then have you tried connecting it to the hub and a laptop to the other end?

If that works, but you need more ethernet ports in the cabin, then a simple unmanaged ethernet switch, (5 or 8 port are quite cheap), would resolve that.

The only complication might be the distance between the BT Hub and the cabin - ethernet is limited to about 100 metres, (I think), depending upon the quality of the cable.

Paul

[MojitoBurrito]

Thank you for your help!,

Its an ethernet port they have installed .  I think the Wireless Access Point is probably the solution, as it could be used be two people (daughters!) at a time, and cannot hardwire her Chromebook (no port).

[MojitoBurrito]

Thank you, yes I think this is the solution as it may have a couple users in the cabin at a time, and pretty cost effective!

[Paul608085]

If you had an ethernet switch in the cabin and connected the Wireless access point via it, then you could have both wired and wireless connections at the same time 😀

Paul

[licquorice]

Netgear do a combined dual band wifi WAP and Ethernet switch https://www.netgear.co.uk/business/products/wireless/essentials-wireless/WAC104.aspx  £55 at Amazon

[licquorice]

Yes, that's the one I just linked to, but you need to delete the link as it is against forum rules to link to e-commerce sites.