Best way to extend wifi wirelessly?

[threeoten]

I have a tricky situation on our farm trying to get wifi to a house that is blocked from the wireless router by a hill. Running wire between the router and hill isn't currently an option but I can run wire from the house to the hill. Also, the powerline devices won't work as they are on separate solar power systems. A basic visual:

(Clear line of sight to the hill from both house and router)

I put a wifi extender at the top of the hill as a test and it gets good signal and I even get good signal from the extender while standing outside the house. Problem is that the thick walls are not at all conducive to wifi signal and so the signal inside the house is crap. Can I get another extender or antenna or something similar to put in the window of the house in order to get signal inside? What might be the best setup to accomplish this?

Thanks!

 

[lakedude]

How about an external antenna outside the house?

Something like this:

https://www.amazon.com/Tupavco-TP513-Antenna-2-4GHz-17dBi/dp/B008Z4I7WQ

 

[threeoten]

how about an external antenna outside the house?

Does a wifi antenna need to be plugged into the users device? Or can it receive AND transmit wifi?

 

[Thebobo]

How about distances and how high is the hill and your houses?

I think you can bounce it as well
How to Set Up a Microwave Internet Link Over Distance

 

[threeoten]

How about distances and how high is the hill and your houses?

I think you can bounce it as well
How to Set Up a Microwave Internet Link Over Distance

Router to top of the hill: About 150ft with a clear line of sight.
Top of hill to house: About 75 ft with a clear line of sight.

 

[Charlie22911]

I think what you are looking for is a point to point ethernet bridge. Ubiquiti makes some gear that would handle it if that is the direction you'd like to go.

 

[threeoten]

I've edited OP to reflect more detail, also that I CAN run wire between the hill and the house, just not from the hill to the source router. Would running an ethernet cable from the wifi extender to the house be a good option? Can I then connect it to another wifi router inside the house?

 

[threeoten]

So to be more specific, what types of devices would I need in order to receive wifi signal at the hill, and then transfer that signal (wired or wirelessly) to another device that can broadcast wifi in the house (like a wifi router normally would)?

 

[JackMDS]

The signal in house 1 to travel 150ft an Access Point in a protective Box has to be Installed outside facing the hill and connected to the main Router via CAT6.

On the hill you need an Access Point that can be configured as a Client Bridge to receive the signal from house1, and deliver it via wire to House 2.

Outdoor hardware cab be found here:

https://www.data-alliance.net/antennas/

 

[threeoten]

https://www.data-alliance.net/antennas/

Thanks for the link, but I'm not sure what devices I need and in what spots in my drawing.

 

[lakedude]

We paid a retiree across the street to use his WiFi and it seems like we used a homemade "can-tenna" which was 2 way for sure. The internet says that the yagi has similar directional properties transmitting like it does receiving.

https://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Cantenna

 

[razel]

An extreme example of 150mbits over 7 miles:

They didn't state though whether that signal out the antenna is regular 802.11 WiFi.

As stated hinted prior, run that ethernet 75ft up the hill to top to an AP with a directional antenna, then another directional antenna inside the other home. Which begs the question, that AP up that hill needs power, if you can run AC power up there, I honestly would just put a switch up there and run Ethernet back down. If you can't typical ethernet switches do run 12v or 5v with you can provide other ways include PoE. You can even just lightly bury the cable or if truly needed, encase it here and there inside a PVC pipe.

 

[threeoten]

I have installed DD-WRT onto a spare router and set it up as a bridge which gets it's connection wirelessly from the source router, mostly using the following directions plus a couple of other tweaks: https://bit.ly/2Lt63KC

So now I have a WNDR4500 as the source router and a WNDR4300 set up as the bridge. With a computer plugged into the bridge router I can get online but I can only load web pages for the first 30 sec or so, then I start to get timeouts and DNS errors until I unplug the computer from bridge and re plug, then another 30 sec or so of connectivity. The two routers are very close, and I'm getting a strong and consistent network connection between the two, just not consistent web connection. Any idea why this could be? I'm SO close! :/

 

[threeoten]

Just FYI to anyone who finds this in the future.. I accomplished this by getting a TP-Link Archer C1200 router and setting it up as a Bridge via it's stock firmware. No fancy antennas or anything. It's working great and the signal from the bridge/router is great! I still have a wired connection coming from it and to a wifi extender for better reliability.

 

[p00rhyan]

I put a wifi extender at the top of the hill as a test and it gets good signal and I even get good signal from the extender while standing outside the house. Problem is that the thick walls are not at all conducive to wifi signal and so the signal inside the house is crap.

I have installed DD-WRT onto a spare router and set it up as a bridge which gets it's connection wirelessly from the source router, mostly using the following directions plus a couple of other tweaks:

So now I have a WNDR4500 as the source router and a WNDR4300 set up as the bridge.

With a computer plugged into the bridge router I can get online but I can only load web pages for the first 30 sec or so, then I start to get timeouts and DNS errors until I unplug the computer from bridge and re plug, then another 30 sec or so of connectivity.

The two routers are very close, and I'm getting a strong and consistent network connection between the two using Windows command line password extractor. You can read how i used dos to take wifi password. https://www.systosys.com/2019/07/find-wireless-network-password-using-windows.html , just not consistent web connection. I received error 777 connection attempt failed multiple times. https://www.corenetworkz.com/2011/06/error-777-connection-attempt-failed-due.html Any idea why this could be? I'm SO close! :/
AT&T is providing a solution.
Can I get another extender or antenna or something similar to put in the window of the house in order to get signal inside and latency issue? https://www.corenetworkz.com/2018/07/solve-online-gaming-issues-att-internet-bandwidth.html
What might be the best setup to accomplish this?

If I were in your situation, I would use an external antenna or an Access Point configured in bridge mode outside the house. You may need to use Ethernet cable through the thick walls to the Access Point (AP) in bridge mode because once we configure an AP in bridge mode, literally it acts like a wireless adapter which received the signal from another Access Point or Range Expander.

 

[robvas]

There's no way you can run a wire all the way to the other house?