Getting Internet and Sky to Rear Detached Area of House

FreeBear

Your router (if using DHCP) will assign an address within the same block to what ever is plugged in to the other end of the cable. Usually 198.168.0.xxx

If you are wanting the annex on a different sub-net, you are looking at quite a bit more setting up, and probably outside the scope of most peoples knowledge here.

Ectophile

The thing about powerline adaptors is that the speed you get is entirely dependant on the mains wiring between the two adaptors.  And mains wiring was never designed to carry high speed networking.

They often quote high speeds, perhaps 200Mbps or more.  But what you actually get may be a lot less.  I've just asked mine what they are giving and it's 12Mbps one way, and 10Mbps the other.  And that's using two socket rings in the same house.  Try to run the signal to an outbuilding and it's anyone's giess what you'll get.

Ben1989

So, bought a 50m Cat 6 cable that I'm going to put down before the drive. 

What happens at the other end of this? Can I put a router to have wifi in the building? Is this how it works? Router > wire > router?

DRP

Ben1989 said:

So, bought a 50m Cat 6 cable that I'm going to put down before the drive. 

What happens at the other end of this? Can I put a router to have wifi in the building? Is this how it works? Router > wire > router?

you probably need a wifi access point rather than a router

ROUTER>CAT CABLE > AP

https://www.google.com/search?q=wifi+access+point&oq=wifi+access+point&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i512l9.2805j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

FreeBear

Ben1989 said: So, bought a 50m Cat 6 cable that I'm going to put down before the drive.

Don't forget to put it in conduit, and feed an extra bit of thin rope along side it. If (when) you want to run another data cable across to the outbuilding, you'll have everything in place to pull the wire through.

killerferret666

Id buy the mesh nodes. How I simply describe it to people is.

When you walk into a big superstore and it has wifi everywhere you go without having to changing on to Access Points, it creates this in your home. One wifi name.

A Mesh one may means you can plug one node into your router, others round the house (just need power socket) which in some cases may even reach the annex, but also plug one node into the end of the cat6 cable to give strong wifi there too.

I've put about 6 of these into friends and family places. I get wifi at the end of my garden which is 20m away for an idea and I have a cheaper signal set.

unforeseen

Mesh isnt a magic answer. 
It's just the same as adding WiFi extenders but better integrated. You don't magically get additional range because it's Mesh. 

unforeseen

Stores aren't using mesh. Every one of those APs you see on the ceiling is hard wired back to the router/switch. You can have single SSID names with extenders. That facility existed long before it started being called Mesh. 

When you walk into a big superstore and it has wifi everywhere you go without having to changing on to Access Points, it creates this in your home. One wifi name.

killerferret666

unforeseen said:

Mesh isnt a magic answer. 
It's just the same as adding WiFi extenders but better integrated. You don't magically get additional range because it's Mesh. 

Correct the range of course is based on the wifi technology in the device, pay more get more aerials, higher power etc... but for home use where people may not setup AP's using wifi range detectors looking for blackspots it is the easiest solution to try and cover a house in a reliable fashion.

killerferret666

unforeseen said:

Stores aren't using mesh. Every one of those APs you see on the ceiling is hard wired back to the router/switch. You can have single SSID names with extenders. That facility existed long before it started being called Mesh. 

When you walk into a big superstore and it has wifi everywhere you go without having to changing on to Access Points, it creates this in your home. One wifi name.

Yep agree again, just said its how I describe it to people who aren't into IT like my mum. She needs it in a completely non technical but practical term in what it will do for her at home and how it would work.