A Outside WiFi Access Point For My Home Garden.

[tickmike]

I have a old WRT54GS (Router) that I used for an internal Ethernet cable fed 'WiFi access point' only, it has Two removable aerials and I was thinking of using one, waterproof it and mounting it on my outside gable mounted TV and FM aerial mast, The top of the mast is about 2 metre above the ridge, mounting the WRT54GS in side and using some coax cable to connect the two.

I want to improve the WiFi coverage all over my large garden as it has one or two dead area's at the moment.

 

With the Bipolar aerial it should radiate to all my garden as the house is in the center of the half acre garden.

 

Will it work ?

[bald_pig]

I'd get a proper external antenna:

Antennas | Outdoors | Indoors | SMA

[Blue_Cookeh]

I'd get something "proper" too. I used Ubiquiti's UniFi Outdoor AC AP with great success, especially with their sector antennas for wide open areas.

 

Not badly priced either!

[tickmike]

I've now got a Motorola-AP6522 and 4 outside/inside aerials, POE.

 

Extreme ML-2452-HPA5-036 - Antenna outdoor 2G5G3dB Omni

 

http://www.thebarcodewarehouse.co.uk/Assets/Documents/Motorola/Motorola-AP6522-Datasheet.pdf

 

Does anyone know how much coax I could use for the aerials before I get bad attenuation of the signal ?

[fiberoptics]

I tried the same with you and it worked well.

[tickmike]

I tried the same with you and it worked well.

 

Are you talking about the access point works well ?.

Did you use coax cable with it ?.