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!
One option is to run a cable between the locations, either Cat6 or Multimode Fiber if the location is further than 100m.
Another option is using a Wireless link. There are fixed wireless devices that have directed beams to reach out up to 10km distance between nodes.
Ubiquiti has a product called Nanobean that is quite popular and that you can use in this scenario.
In the Fiber or Wireless link option, it is assumed there are power outlets on both ends of the link. If power is only available on one end, then you could double down on Cat6, use PoE extenders to be able to run a Cat6 cable over 100m, and then have an PoE powered access point given enough power is left at the end of the cable run.