Extending Wifi and wired ethernet points to garden room

[Welchyboy1]

I am wiring a garden room which will be a home office, customer wants wired ethernet points and wifi down there from the house router

Its too far for wifi to reach from the house

I have run an SWA cat 6 from the house router to an RJ45 socket on the wall of the garden room

Can I get a kind of hub that can i can plug in to the incoming cat 6 and then additional wired points in the garden room and will also emit a WIFI zone?

I have tried searching for wired wifi extenders but all that comes back are the ones that are wireless and plug in a wall socket each end

 

[pc1966]

Sort of, but it depends on the details. As a home office I guess you have power so you can put a switch at the end to split the network out in to a handful of sockets for whatever they want (PC, web camera, etc) but commercial ones usually don't provide WiFi. You can also get access points that are just for that and the sort I would go are PoE so a suitable switch that provides PoE will do, for example:

Zyxel GS1900-10HP 8-port GbE Smart Managed PoE Switch

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We have used these for wifi and they work well:

https://www.scan.co.uk/products/netgear-wax214-100eus-ax1800-business-managed-wifi-access-point-dual-band-600plus1200mbps-gbe-80211a

However there might be better options and hopefully someone else can comment.

 

[pc1966]

You can hack a router to provide wifi and the switch side, but not to try and do the other stuff (NAT, DHCP) that routers do, but that is probably way too much trouble to contemplate here.

 

[pc1966]

If you don't need any PoE stuff (access point, web camera, etc) then there are much cheaper switches by the boatload.

Or look at cheaper PoE without the fancy stuff that Zyxel ones has. for example:

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[Rockingit]

Any decent grade WiFi router will act as a node - both wired and WiFi. At my place I’ve got the incoming router which broadcasts a primary WiFi, it’s cable connected to another router acting as an access point for two further WiFi networks as well as some cable connections in the workshop - and then another separate Wireless extender grabs onto the main WiFi and turns back into wired Ethernet for the office via a 24 port switch for the office. And every component is off the shelf Netgear and not expensive.

 

[pc1966]

Any decent grade WiFi router will act as a node - both wired and WiFi.

With the few routers I have used in "as supplied" I have not seen any obvious option to change from router to a simple node (i.e. to stop NAT & DHCP on that unit). Is this a Netgear feature?

I have done it with openWRT-flashed versions, but it is very much a pain compared to off-the-shelf options if they do what you need.

 

[Rockingit]

You only really want one DHCP server on a network, especially if it 'spiders' around quite a lot like mine does. The proper solution for my install would be some more cabling and a meshed wifi, except I'm too tight to shell out for it when I have something that works. So in my case the upstream Sky router does DHCP (not very well, but good enough) and a 'dumb' Netgear repeater (EX2700) acts as one cable node (wifi turned off) and I re-used an existing Netgear R8000 I had, turned to Access mode, to pick up the cabled LAN from the Sky router and re-broadcast as outdoor wifi nets that get used for various security cameras etc. There's about 40 devices attached at 'standby' level use.

I'm not aware that it's a specific Netgear feature to do so, I've also Linkedsys routers for some specialist work equipment LANS and they all offer it as well.