I want to be able to provide Wi-Fi internet access approximately 100 ft from my house. My Wi-Fi household mesh Network won't reach more than a few ft outside.

To start off with I can simply throw a cable. I've got ports and I've got easy run-through a door bottom for the short-term.

The final location will be in a weather protected shed on the far side of the property.

Various cables on Amazon. I want 200 ft to be sure. I don't have to run higher than gigabit speed.

Can someone tell me what Cat level I should be buying? I don't mind over buying to be faster later, but at the same time I will need to make sure the plugs will fit what I currently have.

I intend on trying to use a Linksys ax1800 that I bought a few years back that's been sitting in a box. The cable that came with it is CAT5 e amj.

Next, I want to provide a bridge via the cable to the access point. While this device has bridge mode, it might be pure mesh on the WiFi side and ignoring the cable. I can't find any docs that tell me one way or the other. So if I get to that point, can anyone recommend a device that will do pure bridge via the cable?

I've got various devices that need to be all on the same network so I need to make sure everybody sees everybody equally when I'm done. And days of building Open BSD Frankenstein Network boxes are long behind me.

No cable required.

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I have about 30% signal when I walk 15 ft out the house and then it disappears. Then I have another 100 ft. until I get to the point where I want the Wi-Fi accessible. Everything's outside.

I have electricity outside the house and I can put in a little weather enclosure.

So I should be able to place a repeater/extender at that point. It's on the edge of the house Wi-Fi so it can talk to that and it's got clear line of sight to the outdoor cameras I want to hook up. No walls so 100 ft should be fine for this.

I hope.

I'm a bit confused about worrying about device count. I can't picture more than 10 devices in my household and three or four down at the shed. Plus my phone as I wander back and forth.

But I have no problem spending a few bucks more for something recommended. I will do further research.

I already anticipated running a cable the whole distance and throwing an access point out there. That's if the wireless mesh does not work which is a crapshoot.

I will not be buying any cable that requires my own termination. I'm not buying the kit and I'm not putting it on and I'm not taking the chance of being the one who screws it up. Those days are long over. Cables are cheap. 30 to 40 bucks looks like it should take care of what I need.

Cat5 versus 6 is a good discussion.

I will not be using power over ethernet. I have plenty of power throughout the property and the devices I use are charged via USB anyway.

I might set up a projector back there and an entertainment center but the bottom line is everything is constrained via gigabit from the internet. And that gigabit is easily 20 times faster than I need for the vast majority of what I use.

I have no high-speed servers in the house that need to pump data to the back or vice versa. So cat5 should be more than enough and will happily plug into one of my multiple ports.

If I go crazy and need to pump real data, I can actually put a couple of fiber connectors in my local house switch. And then throw a fiber line. I can go big later if I need to.

Further research shows I have two eero boxes that were part of my home internet install. They already have some type of mesh and it is incompatible with the box you posted above. Now I know I have to look further and double-check or I will get an additional eero which I'm not that fond of.

Or I throw the wire and put any generic access point out there since it's not meshing with the current Network.

That's why I ask, and that's why I do further research.

I see that it opens up my universe of possibilities for choices. But in my case I would want the PoE coming from the distribution switch at the shed rather than from the initial point of where this long cable is running.

At that point I wouldn't bother with Wi-Fi and have a couple of cameras running directly cabled in.

Those little power injection/ repeater devices are interesting.

This cable will be tossed/snaked through wild berry brambles.

It will be grown over and destroyed in a few years. Then I'll throw another.

Okay, I threw the cable out to the back.

Plenty of extra on both ends to get anywhere in my house or anywhere in the shed. It was totally unnecessary.

This base station/router is so powerful it gives me coverage over the entire property from the far end of the property inside the shed. I could have just put it right outside the house.

That's okay, I'll leave it there, it's already run and it's in a protected space.

Actual Network login was easy. I duplicated my current Network SSID and password and can walk back and forth easily between them. All applications work back and forth as well.

Yeah, I'm not going to look out for anything. It may be mine on paper but those brambles own that land. The second that packet rate starts exceeding whatever magical number it'll be, I'll throw another cable.