Extend wifi coverage

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Aravose

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I need to extend wifi coverage to a cottage on my property. The cottage is about 10 meters from my house and about 20 meters from the router. Please recommend something that is easy to set up and preferably with battery backup.

Thanks for your expertise...
 
Yup lay an ethernet cable from your router to the cottage into another router that then does the wifi part.
Where are you? @Rouxenator can maybe pop in after work and assess your layout
 
I can highly recomend this puppy to keep your router and ONT alive in the main house
I get over 6hrs runtime on it
Then just buy another one for the router in the cottage

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Pineapple Smurf said:
I can highly recomend this puppy to keep your router and ONT alive in the main house
I get over 6hrs runtime on it
Then just buy another one for the router in the cottage

Reason I bought this for myself last year was because of the amount of reviews on Takealot

Takealot.com: Online Shopping | SA's leading online store

South Africa's leading online store. Fast, reliable delivery to your door. Many ways to pay. Shop anything you can imagine: TVs, laptops, cellphones, kitchen appliances, toys, books, beauty & more. Shop the mobile app anytime, anywhere.
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Will this work for the TV as well?
 
I still need to know what to connect the cable to in the cottage, please
 
Lay a LAN cable to the cottage.
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Plug the one side into any port on your existing router.
Plug the other side (in the cottage) into the WAN port (Port 1) of the router you bought.

It will work out of the box like this. If you can set the new router you bought to AP mode, it would be ideal, but will work fine without it.

As for loadshedding backup. The unit @Pineapple Smurf suggested will work forever on this small router I suggested.
 
Grieta Thanburg said:
Lay a LAN cable to the cottage.
Buy this:
afrihost.com

Fibre devices | Afrihost

Your blazing-fast Fibre needs a blazing-fast WiFi router.
afrihost.com afrihost.com

Plug the one side into any port on your existing router.
Plug the other side (in the cottage) into the WAN port (Port 1) of the router you bought.

It will work out of the box like this. If you can set the new router you bought to AP mode, it would be ideal, but will work fine without it.

As for loadshedding backup. The unit @Pineapple Smurf suggested will work forever on this small router I suggested.
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Thank you!
 
Mesh is always the answer to coverage.

First node plugged into the router. Second node as close to the cottage as possible. Third node inside the cottage...
 
Grieta Thanburg said:
Just remember what I suggested will make a new Wi-Fi network, not extend the one you have in the house. It will have different Wi-Fi details.
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Unless you set that Huawei AX3 into Access Point mode? Right? Then it will act like a booster?
 
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