After a lot of window shopping and reading, I'm confused about how to share my WiFi with a building next door.
Should my router be able to broadcast powerfully enough? Or should I invest in some kind of auxiliary antenna for my wifi? Or should I put my money in a range extender, in the receiving building, like the Netgear EX8000 Nighthawk X6S AC3000 Tri-band WiFi Range Extender (which is not cheap)? Or should I buy several cheaper range extenders?
Please see the property map attached. The modem is in the attic of a small one-story building on the left. I want to share the wifi with a new 2-story 4-brdm building to the right. The centers of the two buildings are 66 feet apart.
My Spectrum connection is 400mbps. I am investing from scratch in a modem router. Right now, when I am in the receiving building, I get a weak signal, and on the farther bedrooms, wifi get disconnected. Wifi has to be strong enough to watch streaming content in the building next door. The walls are of stucco and plywood, not concrete.
Best Answer
To be completely honest the best thing to do is get some armoured CAT6 cable and do it properly.
Wi-Fi might be "convenient" but over any real range it can be intermittent, affected by a whole raft of things such as weather, obstructions, interference from local devices such as microwave ovens and cordless phones and solar flares or the phase of the moon.
Get a good quality cable and a wireless access point. You will get a better quality, more reliable and potentially faster connection.
Your future self will thank you for doing it properly to begin with rather than wasting time buying and rebuying various "Wireless Booster" kits and devices to try and bridge that gap.