Laughingboy's Hobby Lodge
Get connected
Strictly I have missed out a step here, the first thing I did once I got the shed powered was focused on how I was going to get connected to the internet.
I had initially thought to run cat5e the length of the garden I being honest I had used Powerline devices in the past and just thought I would give it ago.
I have both a Virgin 350meg and BT 40meg (everyone needs failover these days) coming into the house so it was important to try and get as high speed as possible.
Given the distance and that I was going over the mains cabling I went for some high rated Powerline devices
TP-Link TL-PA9020 2000Mbps I believe they are about £80 a pair. I replaced all of the Powerline devices in my house with these given a network is only as fast as its slowest point.
It is not perfect but it is fairly reliable between 60-100 Mbps which is plenty for most things. Not quite the 380Mbps I get in the house. Of course, I ran the actual cable down then I could improve that dramatically and maybe in time I will.
I coupled it with a very cheap Wireless AP so that could have the option of hardware the PCs etc and wireless for other devices.
Anyway now we are connected!
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