I have given up on my attempt to get CAT6 cable across to my workshop through the disused heating oil supply pipe. I can get 10 metres of the required 11 through it, so I excavated back 1.5 metres and tried again, and I can only get 9 metres down it now... Enough!
So, I need to get internet to said workshop, as the wifi on my pathetic BT super wonder Ultrafast smart hub is shit, and barely makes it 3/4 of the way across the house, let alone across the yard and into the olde-worlde Faraday cage (i.e. corrugated iron barn) that houses my workshop. Powerline adaptors, folk have said, and they do allegedly work on different ring mains. So, the question that I can't find the answer to in manufacturers blurb is: Can I feed its signal via a network switch? The crap BT router/hub thingy only has 3 ports, rather than the claimed 4 (well there's 4 sockets, but one of them is the input, so it doesn't count) and they are currently occupied by 1. the feed to the PC, 2. the feed to the living room stuff (TV and other media equipment), and 3. the NAS, which sits right alongside the hub. I've got a spare way on the switch in the living room, but not a spare socket to power it (apparently they don't like adaptors/power strips/whatever) the office has enough power sockets, but no available data port, so suggestions as to how I get power and data to a powerline adaptor are welcome. I don't want to buy a network switch only to find it won't work!
All this, just to listen to the bloody radio in my workshop! There is bugger all FM or DAB signal in our area anyway, and expecting to get a signal inside a workshop that is lined with foil faced insulation, inside a corrugated iron clad barn, is living in fairyland.
If small radios had aerial sockets, I'd install an aerial on the barn, like the monstrous thing I've installed on the house, but they don't and anyway I'm reluctant to make the barn look like a dwelling, I prefer to maintain the pretence its just a barn. I've got a wifi extender thingy, which "sort of" works, in parts of the workshop, when it feels like it, but I just want a reliable signal for radio and internet.
Ideas? Yes, I know its my fault for living in the sticks...