We live on a farm. There is one residential house with a hub inside. This has two Ethernet cables running underground to an office building and a portacabin in separate locations, which then connects to little hubs which extend the WiFi into those buildings.
We now want more WiFi to reach another area even further away. This is so we can run CCTV cameras. If it’s not possible we will have to get SIM card cameras and pay monthly.
But, before we do, what else can we do? I don’t think we should really be running anymore Ethernet cables off the existing hub elsewhere as, could it overload it? It just seems a lot for one residential hub.
Could we get openreach to do something?
Any ideas PLEASE throw them my way!
Depending on exactly what sort of coverage you need, you could get a number of outdoor wireless access points to cover an area and/or use pairs of directional antennas, connected to access points with removeable antennas/antenna connections, to create wireless links between locations. Some dish antenna setups can carry WiFi signals over a few kilometres.
A few CCTV cameras are unlikely to overload your hub (broadband router?) but there is something to be said for having routers handling routing (i.e. your broadband Internet connectivity) and switches to handle switching (providing cabled Ethernet connectivity). This also means that your cabled connectivity and any wireless access points connected to it don’t need to change if you change your ISP and get a new hub/broadband router.