Powerline or mesh

Jock007

Hi folks. Straight to the point. We have a summerhouse which has electric via armoured cable from the house. Due to location of our WiFi router it isn't viable to run a Cat5/6 to the summerhouse. Powerline (WiFi enabled) or mesh I believe are our options. I'd need 3 units/nodes as I'll put one in the lounge. One thing to note - our current router is in the kitchen and due to power point can't be moved. There is also a 6" block wall between kitchen and lounge.
Your best advice would be greatly appreciated. 
TIA

[Deleted User]

Either are potential options.

Mesh works well for me.

QrizB

We've got a similar situation where our shed is 20m south of the house and the router is on the north side. Powerline mostly worked but it was better to run Cat 5 into the lounge then put a second wifi AP (a repurposed router) on the south side with line-of-sight through a window.

Grumpy_chap

Deleted_User said:

Either are potential options.

Mesh works well for me.

Ditto.      

[Deleted User]

What is the distance involved here? That is a big factor in the answer.

My wifi is usable about 30-35 metres from the router - about 10 metres of that is through the house and 2 brick walls and a further 25 metres down the garden - anything beyond that and it drops out. That is without any extenders, just a good quality wifi router will server that distance easily.

Jock007

[Deleted User] said:

What is the distance involved here? That is a big factor in the answer.

My wifi is usable about 30-35 metres from the router - about 10 metres of that is through the house and 2 brick walls and a further 25 metres down the garden - anything beyond that and it drops out. That is without any extenders, just a good quality wifi router will server that distance easily.

From the router to the furthest end of the summerhouse is probably 15m. The WiFi signal doesn't reach that far. The router I have is the one supplied by my broadband provider. 

Undervalued

Jock007 said:

Deleted_User said:

What is the distance involved here? That is a big factor in the answer.

My wifi is usable about 30-35 metres from the router - about 10 metres of that is through the house and 2 brick walls and a further 25 metres down the garden - anything beyond that and it drops out. That is without any extenders, just a good quality wifi router will server that distance easily.

From the router to the furthest end of the summerhouse is probably 15m. The WiFi signal doesn't reach that far. The router I have is the one supplied by my broadband provider. 

My experience of powerline was that it worked extremely well on the same ring main but was very disappointing if I plugged an adaptor into other ring mains or circuits in the same house.

If you have an available socket in the house that is on the same circuit as feeds your summerhouse I image it would work well but otherwise you may be disappointed.

A far cheaper and more reliable solution would be to run an ethernet cable down to the summerhouse (but obviously more work)!

Jock007

The summerhouse power comes direct from the consumer unit. I presume that means it's on a different circuit ? 

brewerdave

Jock007 said:

The summerhouse power comes direct from the consumer unit. I presume that means it's on a different circuit ? 

Yes - I have a powerline adapter plugged on on a separate circuit - it does occasionally lose connection - when it does , I disconnect the ethernet lead and reconnect to re-establish the network - happens a couple of times a day which I can cope with but might be a nuisance if working from home.

Jock007

brewerdave said:

Jock007 said:

The summerhouse power comes direct from the consumer unit. I presume that means it's on a different circuit ? 

Yes - I have a powerline adapter plugged on on a separate circuit - it does occasionally lose connection - when it does , I disconnect the ethernet lead and reconnect to re-establish the network - happens a couple of times a day which I can cope with but might be a nuisance if working from home.

Any idea why it loses connection ? That is what happens to mine. There must be a reason. It doesn't make sense, especially when the WiFi speed test shows it is perfect at the time it drops out. 

matelodave

I have a summerhouse and caravan around 20 metres from the router - Powerline feeds the summerhouse via SWA cable from the main fuse box in the house and I get around 10mbit/s.

Wifi was just about available in the caravan but pretty slow at 3-4mbit/s as it's fighting diagonally through three walls

However during the middle of the year we were having problems with our BT router and I got myself a Huawei AX3 Wifi 6 router for about £40 which worked OK until BT replaced their router with an upgraded smart hub 2 to provide digital voice as well as broadband (we have FTTP). 

The Huawei router is now sitting on the kitchen windowsill about 12m from the van and summerhouse being used as a wifi extender and I can get a decent 5gz signal at just over 40mbit's out in both the van and the summerhouse - my grandson was mightily impressed as he was sleeping in the van over Xmas and using wifi. - this is it and its now £30 - HUAWEI AX3 AX3000 Dual Band Wi-Fi Router, Quad-core Wi-Fi 6 Plus Revolution, Wi-Fi Speed up to 3000 Mbps, Supports Access Point Mode, Parental Control, Guest Wi-Fi, NFC-enabled OneTap Connection : Amazon.co.uk: Computers & Accessories