A few weeks back I gave a Zoom presentation from my shed and while the WIFI connection was OK from the wood work end of the shed (where i did most of there presentation) it was less than adequate from other parts and the WIFI dropped the video (audio still OK) out in the metal work section of the shed. This makes sense given the metal work section is clad in metal both externally and internally, and I never do anything online in that the metal work of the shed as its pretty grubby, I usually go online while sitting on a stool in the middle or WW end of the shed which only clad externally with metal and there is a door and window there to enable the wifi signal from the house to leak into the shed.
Normally I wouldn't worry about this, but as I am going to be giving some more presentations I thought I would see what I could do to boost the WIFI inside the shed. Shed is on a separate electrical sub board so that ruled out a mains connections and there is no way I'm digging another trench to the shed I've already dug 3 separate trenches (mains, water and gas) . So I started looking into WIFI extenders.
The first thing I did was map out the WIFI data transfer rate inside the shed using my mobile and an App called WFI sweet spot. It turns out there are quite a few low reception points and even dead spots in the shed and I guess I didn't notice them before probably because I wasn't doing anything too taxing and doing these from the working end of the shed.
The strongest data transfer rate iIdetected was in front of the open shed door but as that is not always open, the next best and almost as good was in front of either closed window. In a straight line that's about 15 m from the WIFI base station in an upstairs bedroom at the back of the house. Here the transfer rate was about 3/4 compared to being right next to the transmitting base station up in the house.
So I bought another WIFI base station and configured that as a repeater. Fortunately there is a wide wooden shelf just above one window which enables the wifi unit to be readily attached underneath the shelf.
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Result is I now have ~3/4 the usual transfer speed everywhere inside the shed. Not as good as a direct cable but it saved me digging another trench.