New Wi-fi network (product selection) question

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Grand Fucktard

Grand Fucktard

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OK here's the situation

2,700 sqft house - 90ft of open yard - 2800sqft Munson building (steel shop building)
total area of property abt 1/5 acre

I'm not super technically knowledgeable about wi-fi esp "6" [ax]
I tried calling briannaWu, but the intern answered and said the phone was using up all Brianna's alpha blades, so I hung up

I use an older orbi at home (not this property) so I can use it in the yard, etc ..and it's "fine" (i mean it's transparent for me. I don't notice any lag with a main and a sat across abt 1/3 acres. and I'm typical user, streaming video, etc 2 full time users, say 15 devices currently (printer, etc)


any thoughts on what to use?
gigabit fibre coming in but I doubt the mean speed is that high and not going to run any crazy apps
these guys aren't gamers

The main concern I have (wth no experience in it) is hooking up both buildings that are abt 90ft apart and one of them is a metal box


thoughts? (there isn't wi fi in the Munson building at all right now so it's not a how does it work now"? baseline to start from)
 
How much metal is within each building's construction because that's going to screw with stuff when it comes to wifi.

If one is so dense you might just be better running a landline through it to set up an ethernet connection and having wifi be set up internally.
 
Marissa Moira said:
How much metal is within each building's construction because that's going to screw with stuff when it comes to wifi.

If one is so dense you might just be better running a landline through it to set up an ethernet connection and having wifi be set up internally.
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building one is residential stick constructin
building two is a polebarn style munson building...so the interior is completely open

I don't have immediate access to the buildings, so I can go in ther and use inSSIDer or something to look at signal strength


obv I'd rather not have to run line between the 2 if possible hoping to not make it a hardware install project but I also want a cheerleading team to touch my pee pee and that ain't likely to happen either
 
Access points, preferably Power over Ethernet ones so you don't have to deal with plugging them into something, and some small switches that supports PoE of course. Run the ethernet cables whichever way you want, I'm not an electrician.








I'm going home to drink now but I'll still be charging you for three hours.
 
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