u/JPwildheart

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Extender and Bridge set up question

Hi, I live in a rural area in an off grid solar powered yurt. The land I'm on has a main house that has star link internet and we have a wifi extender that extends the signal from the star link router at an outbuilding. There is a clear line of sight from the outbuilding to my yurt. The yurt is like maybe 1500 feet from the outbuilding. I'd like to run a wireless bridge from the outbuilding to the yurt. I bought two TP-link CPE-510 units to do this. It is not possible right now to run an hard line cable from the star link router to the outbuilding. So my puzzle/question is can I wire the CPE-510 to the extender as the internet source and then use that signal for the CPE-510 units to create the bridge to the yurt? unfortunately there isn't a clear line of sight from the main house to my yurt, so I can't just bridge from there. Our current extender is a TP-link (not sure the model but a cheap one). I was wondering if there are any wifi extenders I can buy that have a Gigabit Ethernet port that I can plug into the LAN port of the POE injector for the CPE-510 unit at the outbuilding. On the yurt side. I have a CPE-510 unit conencted by CAT6 cable to the injector and another CAT6 cord from the injector LAN port conencted to the WAN port of a small router (GL.inet Opal). So my questions are: 1) can I connect the CPE-510 at the outbuilding to an wifi extender via a CAT6 cord and use the extender as the internet source? 2) if so, what is an extender that is a good fit for outside mounting, has the LAN port and is under $100? 3) anything special I need to know for set up like what mode set the CPE units to (bridge, AP, client, repeater, other)? 4) If this won't work, any other solutions you can think of that are wireless and inexpensive? I know this is a lengthy post. Thanks or your help!

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u/JPwildheart — 2 days ago