We are looking to add wifi to three metal pole barns approximate each 300 - 400 feet apart. What would be the best model for this application?
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My unit is the " HOWABN1" it can be configured to work with other hawking products to do what you are looking for. I contacted the company's sales department, by email, told them what I was looking for and they recommended the products. The unit I have works well. I would advise that you contact Hawking and get them to spec you out equipment and then purchase the products through Amazon. It was real easy to set up.
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It will work great. I have mine set up a mile apart with several large concrete buildings in the middle and it gets a perfect signal with no data loss.
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Dear Vicky, Thank you for your question. The Havahart Wireless 5134G2 Radial-Shape 2 Wireless Fence will absolutely not work with aluminum siding on a structure or in heavily wooded or landscaped areas enclosed within the fence boundaries. Slopes and hills, metal sheds or other smaller metal structures, metal downspouting, metal garage doors, metal poles may present challenges to the fence, as all wireless systems have these challenges. The interference is no different than a building has to a cell phone. From my own experience, the controller absolutely will not work in my neighbor's yard, who has an aluminum sided home. My brother has a brick home, but a metal shed in the yard, and he sets the radius to where the shed is outside the radius, and has no problems. The signal gets weaker, but still strong enough to buzz the dog, who understands the buzz means stop. We found the controller inside the home should never be near an outside meter or air conditioner, as the signal weakens. By moving the inside controller to a wall with no outside items in the way produces a nice clear signal. Some highly intelligent dogs are not affected by weaker signals from metal or dense interference, as they know any buzz, no matter how tiny means stop. Basically, a lot of metal structures and dense trees and landscaping are not going to let the signal come through, but a few smaller things will cause some interference with the signal, but some dogs respond to any strength signal. I hope this answers your question. Maren
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Check Www.frys.com look for wireless router/access point external antenna. Check pepwave specs for connector spec.
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These are good products however, a lot of the "range" id dependent upon the type equipment that you have i.e., language being utilized and whether its laptop and/or desktop. Especially important will be be type input Modem being utilized at your home for outward dissemination. It all adds into the equation. I have personally used these years ago for equipment in my home (large area home) and with a laptop at the end of the house; it worked satisfactorily. I would highly - very highly - recommend that you contact your local provider and inqjuire with them as to the range requirements for their channel input/output regarding the usage of the Netgear PL AV200. We were fortunate in that our Provider happens to be Bright House, one of the best in the industry if not the best - for full range of connection. Their input modem (located in our home) is the Ubee with wide-area coverage and no additional expander/boosters are necessary. Again, check with you local Provider and they should be able to provide you with the exact parameters you need to follow i.e., distance from their input modem, etc..... Sorry, but equipment these days is relevant to Provider-provided Modem equipment; thats the main goodie in it all........... Good luck...... Skip
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Paul, I was trying to get full wifi out to my backyard which is only about 50' away, but my problem is I have steel siding on my house instead of wood or vinyl .So I positioned the extender at the nearest wall socket to my sliding glass door to to the back yard as to reflect thru the glass and not my siding. This worked, I didn't have all bars showing but I had the wifi ok. Your standard wifi router (N) should get you at least that far without the extender, standard structure house wood of vinyl siding of course
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I would say No, IBM puposly made there version of wifi short range 100 feet max. but it is 2.4 ghz, would be very minimal i'll bet.
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I actually returned this unit. I feel a better option for you might be something like a Netgear Powerline AV+200 adapter. Provided you have same power from the house to the metal building. (need to be on same phase leg of power) house outlet to metal building. This would give you an ethernet inside the metal building which you could add a wireless router if needed.
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I am a it pro and personally I would save your money. I have use a bunch of different antennas and I have seen very little change. a better access point is a much better option. if you are trying to go between building I like engenius outdoor access point if it is inside I like a dlink dap1522. if you use either of theses you want to set them up with a static ip they are much easier that way,
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Unifi LR AP is mWifi in your garage, this might be the right device.anaged and controlled, and should only be used with, the UniFi Enterprise WiFi system. Unless you are connecting from a long ways away, this would not work well for what you need; this is meant more for point to point wifi installations, or point to multipoint. If you only want an AP, look at the Ubiquiti Pico. If you need multiple APs, then look at Unifi. If you need
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The range is going to depend on the layout of your space , the composition of the materials in your walls, floors and ceilings -- so it will be somewhat different for everyone. In my case, I have a single story ranch style house, about 3,000 square feet. The router is at one end of the house and the range extender is in the middle. There is no direct line of sight between the two - there are a few walls between them and it works just fine to cover the rest of the house. I get a good signal at approximately 60-70 feet.
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How far is your WiFi from the location where the M5 will be? Do you have line of sight with a clear Fresnel zone? I would say yes to using two. Normal WiFi routers don't have the strength to TX more than 100 feet or so. You place both of these in P2P mode and they will work well.
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It seems your original question has been answered. Just wanted to mention that if you go with the range extender, make sure that somewhere in the room you place it gets decent signal strength. The extender needs to show 2 bars at least to make a decent connection, otherwise the WiFi it provides will be poor. Another option you may want to consider it the TP-Link TL-WPA4220Kit. It will provide for wired connections and also serve as a range extender, but not be limited to the range of your current WiFi signal.
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I use one connected to a homemade 1/4 wave, ground plane antenna mounted on a 20 foot tower. I can consistently communicate on the 2 meter band on repeaters up to 80 miles away.
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Any large router will work. The smaller ones are too light for the heavy work this system can do. Also, you want to be able to use both 1/4" and 1/2" bit shafts. One more thing you might want to add is an adjustment from the top. Since the router is located rather deep inside the table it will make adjustments a lot easier.
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"Feet of range" would be a specification that would only be useful in open air - no buildings, no walls, no vehicles, no power lines, etc. And we usually don't use these types of devices in those conditions. Furthermore, range depends on both the router and the device at the other end - antenna design in the other device matters tremendously. For practical applications, you have to worry about how many walls might be between the router and the other device, what type of insulation is installed in those walls, whether it has a foil vapor barrier, where the large appliances are located in the house, where the power wiring and plumbing are run in the walls and floors, and how much concrete there might be between the router and the other device.
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There is no such thing as a straight shot when wifi is involved. Range depends on a homes construction. If you want range this is not the item for you. Find a unit that has an external antenna. Even with an external antenna you would require a strong signal that is no more than 100 feet away for data transfer to work fluidly (without dropouts).