Boosting wifi into garden

snaps

Im looking to boost the wifi into the front garden. At the moment ive the main modem/router in the back of the house, feeding via ethernet to a tplink router upstairs at the front of the house. This TP link router feeds via 3 ethernet cables to games consule, satellite receiver and PC. Its situated on a wardrobe with thick concrete walls that shade it from the front garden. If i put it on the window sill, I get great coverage outside, but because of the ethernet cables its not practical to place it on the window sill due to the trailing cables. So I was thinking of getting an extension antenna to just place on the window sill, or even outside on the balcony. So my questions are:

Will this do the job?

Are the connections on the routers antenna standard with extensions? (I notice the main modem router (Sagem) downstairs has a larger screw on connection than the TP Link router.

Any advice would be welcome.

gctest50

You could put a little 8 port switch on top of the wardrobe :


http://www.pixmania.ie/ethernet-hub-and-switch/netgear-switch-gigabit-ethernet-8-ports-10-100-1000-mbps-gs108/12020033-a.html

( you may find better/cheaper elsewhere )

then you'd only have one cable running down from that to the TPlink on the window sill

If you didn't want a cable running from the switch to the TPlink you could then get these :

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057050793

snaps

i thought about that, but it starts to get a bit expensive and I would still need to run an ethernet cable and a power cable to that window sill. I improved the signal a little in the garden today by putting a metal plate behind the tp link routers antenna (I suppose acting like a reflector).
Thats still a valid idea though. Thanks.