I just upgraded to the hopper. I have a shop around 50 ft. away from the house. I recently upgraded my router to a Motorola Surfboard SBG6580. I have everything hooked up and working. I have the basic dish wifi adapter running the setup. The system seems to lag at times. My internet is fast enough but it seems like my signal may be week to the shop. Has anyone ran into this? Can you run a signal booster? Outdoor antenna? Non-dish wifi adapter? Any help would be appreciated and thanks ahead of time.
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Will it still work if the shop and house are on separate breaker boxes? They both go to a main one at the pole but each have their own as well.
I'm using Netgear model XWN5001 at my router and XAV5201 in my garage. I wanted wifi in my garage but my ASUS router was too far away and research into extending wifi range came up with less than satisfactory answers. Netgear has other models if you just want an Ethernet port on the garage end instead of wifi.
Basically you just plug the module into an outlet near your router and plug a cat 5 between the module and a free port on the router. If your router doesn't have any Ethernet LAN ports you will need to add a switch after the router or get a new router with Ethernet LAN ports. Then plug the remote module into a garage outlet following Netgear's instructions for finding the best outlet.
My garage has an electrical subpanel but it is fed from the house panel. Powerline can be tricky and I had to try different outlets to find the best performance. The netgear modules has LEDs on them to show you how good the signal is.
Throughput is highly dependent on the distance between the modules. The model I used has a max specified speed of 500mbps, which it nearly got when both modules were used in the house itself as a test. But because my range is fairly long (over 100 feet) and goes through two power panels I only get 80mbps in one direction and about 38mbps in the other. However the connection is very solid and has been good enough to use on demand from my garage hopper without network issues.
If you try this I'd buy the modules from someone with a good return policy. You cannot predict how well these will work without trying it and you may have to send them back.
Good luck.
Basically you just plug the module into an outlet near your router and plug a cat 5 between the module and a free port on the router. If your router doesn't have any Ethernet LAN ports you will need to add a switch after the router or get a new router with Ethernet LAN ports. Then plug the remote module into a garage outlet following Netgear's instructions for finding the best outlet.
My garage has an electrical subpanel but it is fed from the house panel. Powerline can be tricky and I had to try different outlets to find the best performance. The netgear modules has LEDs on them to show you how good the signal is.
Throughput is highly dependent on the distance between the modules. The model I used has a max specified speed of 500mbps, which it nearly got when both modules were used in the house itself as a test. But because my range is fairly long (over 100 feet) and goes through two power panels I only get 80mbps in one direction and about 38mbps in the other. However the connection is very solid and has been good enough to use on demand from my garage hopper without network issues.
If you try this I'd buy the modules from someone with a good return policy. You cannot predict how well these will work without trying it and you may have to send them back.
Good luck.
I bought a pair of TRENDnet Powerline 200 AV Nano adapters from newegg.com for a friend for connecting a Samsung smart TV that was getting a weak wireless signal. We really didn't have but one outlet on each end available to try and ended up with an orange rather than green link light, meaning that it's getting less than the full 200mbps. They have been very pleased with streaming HD from Netflix with these adapters. I didn't plug in my laptop to try a speedtest as I was ready to go home.
One requirement is they must be on the same power transformer. Secondly, they work better if you're using outlets on the same leg of the electrical service. Without getting too technical, normally the rows of breakers in a panel alternate between the legs. Thirdly, I believe the signal degrades over distance.
I bought TRENDnet because the user reports on newegg seemed better than the other brands. The reports for the 200 also seemed better than the 500s. Plus we caught them on sale for about $35 a pair, I believe.
Good luck,
Dave
