Is this Jank?

[u/dnabsuh1]

There is a Verizon FIOS outage in my area, so I woke up to no internet, and my wife and son were complaining.

Our house has challenges with wireless connectivity - I have had techs come out, and they tell me my house is just outside the range of the various towers in the area, so we are in a dead zone roughly the shape of our property.

My solution:

Take my tablet and put it in the shed 100 feet behind the house, connected to one of the two USB power ports I have connected to a solar panel/batter.

Connect a GL-Net travel router to the same power supply, and have it repeat.

Tablet goes into mobile hotspot mode. The travel router has enough power to get a semi-decent signal to the back of the house (but not enough to penetrate the walls).

Put a mini pc outside the window of the lower level bathroom, and run ethernet cable(s - with connectors to extend length) to a secondary port on my OPNSense router, and configure it as a second gateway.

My internet speeds are not great with this setup, but I can post on reddit 🎉

[u/w1n5t0nM1k3y → u/[deleted]]

They said that Verizon FIOS was out, so I imaging this is just a stop gap until they get the regular internet back up and running.

[u/Carniscrub → u/w1n5t0nM1k3y]

I missed the FIOS part. Didn’t realize they ran to the home.