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[quote=Anonymous]Trying to span buildings and 70 feet with a pure wireless solution is going to give you crappy results. The standard thing to do is to run ethernet cable (I would suggest cat6 but you can go with cat5e) from your router through your house to the shed. To cover the outside portion you will need outdoor rated cable and will probably want to dig a trench and bury conduit. Depending on the layout of your house, running cable might involve cutting holes in your walls and patching them.

Another other option is to just run the cable through the house to the garage and then add an wireless access point to span the 15 feet. Ideally, you would use an indoor/outdoor model AP (e.g., https://www.ui.com/unifi/unifi-ap-outdoor/) and mount it on the outside of the garage. This saves digging up whatever is between the garage and shed and is probably preferable if there is a driveway involved.

A third option is to see if you can move your router to a better location, but the distances are probably all too long for a pure wireless solution. You could also contact your ISP (e.g., verizon or comcast) about getting a dedicated line run out to the shed. This will introduce networking issues if you want to, for example, share a printer.[/quote]

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