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!
The cameras still need power so you are running cable anyway POE is a great technology since it powers the camera AND gets the data with just one cord. Battery stuff works but it’s always cheaply built and overpriced.
In large commercial systems the router is just a router. Internally you have a large Gigabit switch often running fiber. So a TP-Link TL-SG 24 port all gigabit and POE is $220 USD on Amazon. A smaller 8 port switch with 4 POE ports is $66 USD. Ubiquiti makes much nicer IT-grade switches for a bit more money. These should be the backbone of your system.
Fiber is nice because it is immune to lightning and electrical issues going forward between switches and you can go to 10 Gigabits.
Ubiquiti’s Airfi stuff can use antennas to literally do gigabit WiFi over several miles. In Western states it’s common for wireless ISPs to use these for wireless backhaul networks. But no matter what cables are much more stable no matter how good this gets.