We live on a farm. There is one residential house with a hub inside. This has two Ethernet cables running underground to an office building and a portacabin in separate locations, which then connects to little hubs which extend the WiFi into those buildings.
We now want more WiFi to reach another area even further away. This is so we can run CCTV cameras. If it’s not possible we will have to get SIM card cameras and pay monthly.
But, before we do, what else can we do? I don’t think we should really be running anymore Ethernet cables off the existing hub elsewhere as, could it overload it? It just seems a lot for one residential hub.
Could we get openreach to do something?
Any ideas PLEASE throw them my way!
It depends on distance. you won’t overload anything with more ethernet connections, with an appropriate network switch you can effectively scale the number of ethernet connections forever.
ethernet distance however is an issue, your maximum is around 100 meters before things get complicated. If it’s within 100 meters i’d reccomend a cable every time.
If it’s further away. you’ll want to set up a point to point wifi bridge something like this. Pretty straight forward and relatively inexpensive, point them at eachother. depending on distance and budget you can go up to and beyond 10KM with this method.
another alternative is a 4g router. that way you only need one sim card, connect all your cameras to that.
few different ways to skin this cat.
openreach are unlikely to help you with this if you already have a line in place.