“Will the wifi signal go thru a steel building? My garage is 20 feet from my house and is made of steel, will the signal penetrate? Or will I have to run a wired connection? The distance between the Google wifi would be about 50 feet from house to garage”
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We used steel screening to secure windows from unauthorized snooping in the Air Force. My barn has metal siding. The signal gets thru somehow. Probably a window. 50 feet plus steel is pushing your luck. But, buy and try like I did. Placement of the devices is key. Move the one in the garage until you get a signal. If no signal, return it. Best Buy will take it back in a reasonable time. Plus, the Google WiFi is simply and eligantly packaged.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.It recommends that you don't place it on top of or by metal. so I would say no.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Probably not, the steel will act as a shield (Faraday Cage). But you might consider running a Cat 5e circuit out to the building and adding a device inside that steel building.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Any time you have a steel structure you are going to have weakening of a wifi signal. I don't know if this would work well for you. I would look more towards a power line AV kit to get internet into your garage.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.If you are pushing a lot of bandwidth over wireless, you will probably want to wire it regardless. However, set it up in wireless mode and try it first. It is easy to reconfigure for a wired connection when available.
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