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Running/getting Internet into garden office?

After some advice please. 
We have Now Broadband and the hub (thankfully) covers 95% of the house.

I need to get internet into a new garden office and was going to run a shielded Ethernet cable in and connect an additional router but having read some of the posts about problems connecting additional routers I’m now wondering if this is the best option or if any can recommend a router which is known to work?

Thanks in advance.

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@Anonymous User Run the ethernet cable to your shed (as planned) but don’t get a router for the shed end! Instead get a wireless access point with one or more ethernet ports and plug the ethernet into that. Then you’ve got both Wi-Fi and ethernet access in the shed...

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@Anonymous User Run the ethernet cable to your shed (as planned) but don’t get a router for the shed end! Instead get a wireless access point with one or more ethernet ports and plug the ethernet into that. Then you’ve got both Wi-Fi and ethernet access in the shed...

Saint1976
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@Anonymous User assuming you're running power from your existing supply in the house, you won't even need to run a cat5 cable. Just use a power line adaptor. 

 

https://www.netgear.com/home/products/networking/powerline/PLW1000.aspx#:~:text=Extend%20Your%20WiFi%20Network%20at,It's%20that%20easy.

RoyB
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@Saint1976 @Anonymous User @dr_necessitor 

 

That link is to Netgear’s US site, and the item seems to be a sod to find in the UK, and some way north of £90 when you do.

 

I use these to reach my garden room, down the mains cable that links it to the house:-

 

https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing-accessories/networking/powerline/tp-link-tl-wpa7510-wifi-powerline-adapter-kit-twin-pack-10174604-pdt.html

 

Same spec, a good, known, make, and readily available. And cheaper.

 

I initially made the mistake of just buying a pair of PLAs, but quickly took them back and swapped for the above ones with WiFi, so our WiFi devices work the same in the garden room as in the house.

 

And the handover, when I walk my iPad from the house down the path to the garden room, is seamless, the remote PLA broadcasting the same SSID as the router in the house.

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Saint1976
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Hi @RoyB 

 

The link I put was more of a 'this is how pla's work' rather than 'buy these ones'.

 

The Netgear pl1000's are available from Amazon for £43 but the tplink 7510's have better reviews! I put some tplink pla's in my parents conservatory and they've been doing the job for a few years without problems!

RoyB
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@Saint1976 

 

Fair enough.

 

But note:-

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/NETGEAR-PLW1000-100UKS-Powerline-Ethernet-Homeplug/dp/B01B4X4W6O

 

shows as Not Available, and claims there is a newer version:-

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/NETGEAR-PLP1000-100UKS-Gigabit-Powerline-Adapter-dp-B01N3YCC7R/dp/B01N3YCC7...

 

but beware! This ‘newer version’ is devoid of WiFi, so its not a newer version at all - it’s something else, and just like the pair I bought without WiFi, and had to return tout suite.

 

PLP for passthrough - I would have liked passthrough, but I needed PLW for WiFi, or would have if I had bought Netgear.

 

Anyway, Amazon must be losing its edge, as Curry’s beat them out for price on the 7510s.

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