![]() When it comes to this type of equipment, there’s only one name you need to know – Ubiquiti. We decided to install a directional outdoor WiFi access point on the side of my dad’s house facing his neighbour’s house. Normally extending WiFi with another access point set in WDS mode works reasonably well, but with both houses being double-brick construction, it blocks most of the signal reaching the second access point. So after fiddling about with a Netgear router set in WDS mode (a form of wireless bridging) for a few days with constant dropouts and slow connection speed, it was time to set up something more substantial. ![]() It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see it made sense to share his solid 30Mbps connection between the two houses. His neighbours are a young family who have been making do with a cheap Vodafone 3G USB connection, pulling about 2-3Mbps download on a good day, when “the wind blows in the right direction” as his neighbour often says. With no data-hungry teenagers left in the house, my dad’s 200GB Telstra Cable plan has lately gone unused, himself only using about 10% of the data allowance each month. ![]() In this guide I will show you how to extend your WiFi range and include a separate building using an Ubiquiti NanoStation.
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