Garden Office

[mjwndave]

Hi all,

I'm after some advice from the collective. I've got 1Gb broadband to the house but on my current setup (mesh and home plugs) the connection isn't best out to my garden office.

Over home plugs I'm having to go through two consumer units (Garage and then to the Office) so by the time it gets there I'm getting 15Mb at the most, and it fluctuates a lot. Mesh is a little more stable but given the distance it's still only about 30-40Mb and with voice/video calls it's hit and miss.

Any advice to get faster? the only other option I've thought about is a CAT 6 cable to the switch in the office. For info, I'm on AV500 home plugs and it's a TP-Link P9 Mesh system

Thanks in advance

[Jaymoss]

Get a network cable specifically for outdoor use then either bury it in some trunking fit for purpose or through the air haha you could use one of your mesh nodes to backhaul so you can have wired and wireless in there

[Taf]

One of my neighbours eldest was getting ready for his GCSE's but couldn't get peace in the crowded house. So he set himself up in a shed. Wifi was awful, so I ran a cable out to get him a full connection. I simply fed it through their old garden hose that I clipped to their fence. It is still there after all 4 kids grew up and had their time of GCSE study in the shed.

[felixw]

Sureky wifi wouls be better than the cabling you currently have?

Wifi would not be better than a cable connection.

I ended up installing some cabling for my Sky Q, the use of Wifi was too unstable.

[mrmistoffelees]

30-40mb bandwidth is more than enough for video calls so your issue is either latency or packet loss or a combination of both.

Crucially you haven’t specified the distance from the equipment to your garden office……

1. As others have said put an external cable in
2. Depending on distance you may be able to mount an external access point

[SnoopZ]

He's probably sorted by now, it's been 10 months.

[Halcyon]

Cabled connection to a switch in the garden building would be the best sollution.
You can get outdoor rated Cat6 cable and in a conduit would help too.


You can then use the wired connection or also add an additional wifi access point into the switch if you need Wifi access too down there.

Originally Posted by SnoopZ

He's probably sorted by now, it's been 10 months.

They havent logged in since Dec 30th 2023 either.

[Jaymoss]

must have been happy with the advice hahahaha

[Dude111]

Originally Posted by Paul

They havent logged in since Dec 30th 2023 either.

I hope things are sorted and working well.... Maybe someone replying to this thread will bring him back to tell us