I need wireless range increased between two buildings?

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Hello! This is a little bit complex, so I'll start off with a description of my problem.

I have a router in an office that is a separate building from the house, approximately 75 foot space between the two with multiple insulated exterior walls. The router we have is specific for this office and I can NOT change the firmware on this unit. I have no wifi reception in the house due to poor signal transmission by this router.

I have 3 items in my possession, a powerline ethernet adapter, a router that is my own that I can turn into a bridge, and a wifi range extender. I'm trying to get internet into the house and have it be stable enough that I don't disconnect every 30 seconds as is happening now.

Now I'm thinking I can connect the office router to powerline and receive internet in the house via the powerline adapter, connect router of mine in bridge mode (DD-WRT firmware compatible router) and connect to this router for my internet. Is this plausible? Or should I mess around with the wifi range extender and hope that works?

Thanks so much!

Neil · Accepted Answer

One powerline adaptor is no use at all. Do you have two?  If you have two AND one building gets its power feed from the other, then that is likely a useful way of getting connection into the house. Then you could use your other router (DD-WR) is irrelevant) as an access point. 

The range extender is unlikely to be a satisfactory solution. In the best case, it would cut your connection speed in half.

Greyolddave · Answer

The walls will not help you here. The answer may be more expensive than you want.
There are commercial antennas that are very directional so you can attach them to the two buildings and point them directly at each other. The equipment that comes with these will be expensive. 
Here is a rather long discussion on the subject:
http://rv.dickeastman.com/2012/01/how-to-build-a-long-range-wi-fi-system-part-1.html
If you are not crossing a street and the buildings are next to each other you might find a way to run an ethernet wire between the two.

Guillaume · Answer

I'm not sure but it seem logic that powerline adapters only work in the same room, in which the powerlines are connected together on the same wires. Maybe with a pair of outdoor wifi antenna? I don't know enough so I can't help you more.

elston · Answer

you may log into the DIR-655 router and disable its DHCP server. Then set it to the comparable prompt community call, encryption mode, and encryption key. Set it to a diverse channel. With somewhat Ethernet cable, connect a LAN port on the WRT54G to a LAN port on the DIR-655. place them as some distance aside and as severe up as achieveable. units will roam immediately and hook up with the device with the main effective sign of their particular region. you could connect under pressure out units to the relax LAN ports on the DIR-655 if needed. do no longer use the DIR-655's WAN/cyber web port.

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