Any way to get internet signal to the shop 150ft away?

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Had this same dilemma over the summer. I ended up calling my provider and had them come and set it up. For 300 bucks they mounted something on the house and a reciever on the shop with a wire running to a new router inside. Excellent signal and figured the hardware was worth the money spent. Clean and quick too.
 

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Had this same dilemma over the summer. I ended up calling my provider and had them come and set it up. For 300 bucks they mounted something on the house and a reciever on the shop with a wire running to a new router inside. Excellent signal and figured the hardware was worth the money spent. Clean and quick too.
sounds like a line of sight set up. hopefully they nailed it down really well. hard wind you will lose your shop signal until you get them aligned again. it's a great set up when it works tho
 

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This, you need a bridge. Ubiquiti has bridges for 25+km. Couple hundred ft is a piece of cake

These are wonderful and preconfigured. All you do is mount them on each building so there is line of site and plug one end into your router and one into the device in the shop.
WTF, search for this on Amazon. "Ubiquiti NBE-M5-16 X 2 units 5GHz NanoBeam M5 16dBi Kit Complete Pre-Configured"

I understand that this unit needs line of sight but what are the chances of the signal making it through a windbreak of evergreen trees?
The house is surrounded by a few evergreen trees probably about 50 ft from the house then it's open space to the shop another 100ft away from the trees.

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UPDATE:

For giggles my dad took a little tv and the Amazon Fire Stick out to the shop about 150ft+ away and as long as he was just outside the shop (steel siding) he could get all the channels no problem. Obviously it lost signal once inside. So this is looking real easy. So all we need to do is mount the Fire Stick outside in a weather tight enclosure and run the cable through the wall and we're done.. No bridge or anything else needed..woohoo..

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