It all went well. The PoE extender got installed near the midpoint of the 220m run from the main router out to the far end of the property, and the Access Point (AP) out there is perfectly happy, serving five of the 12 cottages, and covering most of the property.

We moved the second ethernet run just a bit further, about 120m from the router, and the second AP is happily providing very fast speeds across the middle of the property, and covering most of it.

There were a couple of slow zones though, due to the placement of cottages (walls) and trees, so those got boosted with a third AP at the entrance end of the field. For various reasons it was decided not to run ethernet to the third AP, so instead it is simply meshing with the second (midway) AP, with an 866mbit/sec airlink from it!

Every room in every cottage has at least 30mbit/sec results on SpeedTest, and most of them are between 50mbit and 800mbit/sec. The internet source is 1gbit (both ways) Fibre at the office/entrance.

Everything working and happy. Rain in the forecast for later in the week, so we'll reassess and make antenna tweaks should the need arise. Uploading some photos here for general amusement!


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01_looking_east.jpg

Description: View down to the far end from my cottage.

02_extender.jpg

Description: Ethernet Extender along the left edge of the field/fence.

03_east_end1.jpg

Description: A lot more cottages at the far end, mostly served from the 220m run to the yellow cottage.

04_east_end2.jpg

Description: The AP is on the right-hand corner of that yellow cottage.

05_looking_west.jpg

Description: Looking back down towards the entrance area. Second AP is on the blue cottage, third mesh AP is on the distant lime green one.

06_looking_west2.jpg

Description: Another view of the middle cottages.. AP #2 at near left corner of the Blue one.