TP-Link Wireless Access Point EAP110-Outdoor ($49.99)

b31770 wrote: ↑ Upvoted as well.

I think people are generally trying to be helpful, but as usual, you need to ask questions before making sweeping assumptions.

I see nothing wrong with this use case. Just shocked there aren't that many viable and affordable alternatives.

chatbox wrote: ↑ how much of a hill can it be? Anyway, you know what you need.

torontotim wrote: ↑ I bought one of these at the $49 price back in August, to provide an AP to my neighbour up at the cottage. I was hampered by not using the right ethernet cable though - need solid copper UTP for this kind of thing.

Speed wasn't an issue as I'm running on a 25MBPS wireless rural internet service from Bell. Next spring I'll run a proper outdoor ethernet cable 200+ feet out towards his property and stick it on a tree for him.

Teke wrote: ↑ If you are looking at sharing internet with your neighbor this maybe a better solution. I'm not saying buying this particular one but these devices work great. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32694536163.html

I have this one https://www.engeniustech.com/engenius-p ... ge-enh202/ and on the other side they are getting about 90Mbps down and they have 2 kids.

torontotim wrote: ↑ Mine is pretty simple - I'm just tossing a POE AP out there that will be in range for them. We're both off-grid, but I have a solar system/batteries and can power the thing no problem. Our cottages are about 250 feet apart, so I should be able to run the AP out close enough to his place for him to get connected to it and I should be able to use it while outdoors as well.

When I bought mine, I bought a pre-made 150 foot ethernet cable, but I didn't know at the time I needed UTP for proper POE. So I'm going to buy a spool of proper outdoor UTP ethernet cable and make a cable for this application and replace the 20 year old CAT5 I put on the side of my 100 year old brick house in Toronto that has failed, and run a cable out to my detached garage.

elfion wrote: ↑ OK so I finally received the device.
Good: Quality looks great, management portal looks great, range is good enough for my purposes
Bad: the speed is terrible, no support for 802.3af which means have to use the included PoE injector, can't use active PoE switch

Speed when I stand close to the AP is 40-45 mbps
Speed when I am 50-70 ft away is 25-30 mbps

So I guess I will be returning this little guy and looking for a deal on a EAP225-Outdoor. 25mbps is just not going to cut it unfortunately

MadCanadian wrote: ↑ AC can deliver up to 200-300mbps.

MadCanadian wrote: ↑ A reminder that 100Mbps is equal to 1MBps, which you'll see in windows.

elfion wrote: ↑ my rogers modem wifi gets me a real speed of 380Mbps on my phone when I am sitting a couple of meters away. This is internet. I haven't tested local, but I think it would be similar since the internet connection is pushing about 800Mbps over ethernet.

elfion wrote: ↑ what do you mean? 100Mbps is 100 begabits per second. 1MBps = 1 megabyte per second = 8 megabits per second. So 8, not 100.

MadCanadian wrote: ↑ Well I kept that number low because no one really sits next to the modem all the time, so you get that lower range.

MadCanadian wrote: ↑ As an IT guy, this is your expected speeds. N300 can only really deliver an average of 30-50 mbps. AC can deliver up to 200-300mbps.

This whole confusion is a lot worse for people paying for gigabit speeds and expect to get gigabit wifi speeds as well, when their high end laptop only gets 300mbps due to wifi limitations (which is what they are rated at).

A reminder that 100Mbps is equal to 1MBps, which you'll see in windows.