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.