Question about extending my wifi coverage.

kocher

I am looking to get my wifi from my house to my garage, ~350 feet.
I have LoS from an upstairs window to a mount point on the garage.
I would ideally like to have wifi in the garage and the option for hardwired access.
Speed isn't super important, I'd like to be able to stream music as well as general web browsing, and linking to a DB on my server in the house.

I am thinking of going with this on the garage, Amped Wireless AD14EX High Power 14dBi Outdoor Directional WiFi Antenna Kit ran down to a wireless N router with DDWRT set as bridge/repeater mode.

In the house have a standard N router on a shelf directly in front of the window and tied in to my normal home network.

I'd have everything running in 2.4ghz mode for better range.

Overkill is fine, mainly hoping to stay under $500. I'd rather it look decent and last awhile then be messing with it non stop.

~Misc note, I have some old wrt54g routers laying around with the 5.5 dbi dual antennas already on, I haven't tested this though to see if it would be sufficient.

Questions are:
Would this be sufficient for good signal strength/reliability or should I have an external directional antenna on the house as well?

Anyone have any other suggestions that would be more efficient/reliable/cheaper?

Asif Dasl

Do you have power in the garage? Could you not use a Powerline adapter instead of wireless?

jibbajabba

Doing the same with this :

Billion Products for SSL VPN, ADSL Modem/Router, Wireless ADSL Router, Powerline ADSL Router and Adapter, VoIP ADSL Modem/Router, Security Router, Broadband Router, SHDSL Bridge/Router, iBusiness Security, ISDN Product

Basically a bridge between wireless and wired. Adapter connects to my wireless network in the house and provides access to my router via RJ45.

kocher

I was looking into the power-line adapters, but based on reviews/research I doubt I can use one. I have my breaker box in house feeding the garage with 2O alum wire to a 100 amp panel in the garage.

All the reviews/facts etc I could find on the Power-line adapters lead me to believe it wont work going through 2 breaker box systems, or at least won't work very well.

Any input on this or anyone chime in on the original plan of wireless?

jibbajabba

Check the link I posted - its wireless and does not use powerlines .. You can use it to create a powerline network, but effectively it has a wireless client which connects to your router and bridges it with the RJ45...

I use that thing in my garage and it connects to my wireless network in the house.