Getting WiFi in the hangar..

[thinwing]

L-Com has an extensive selection of wifi antennas and routers for this purpose...many offering impressive DB gains for small foot prints.

[Marauder]

The first step, and maybe you've don this, is go over close to the wifi location and see if you can get online with a phone or laptop there. If you can, because it's an open network, the next step is to just extend the range with an antenna and router to your hangar. 
I'm about to do this at my hangar as well. We have free wifi in the FBO building. But it's just a bit too far for me to reach from my hangar. I'll be happy to send a parts list and instructions once I get mine done.

Please do


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[Steve W]

I did this for my hangar, but it's not really something that boiled down to buy X and Y and hook them together. I got a Raspberry Pi with an external USB stick that took an external antenna and then use the internal Pi Wireless as an access point for the hangar.

If I were to do it with commercial gear I'd probably look for a bridge or client device with an external antenna port, then connect it via a cable to a normal wireless router on the WAN port. In some cases the LAN port would work and configure the router as just a local access point but that depends on how the main network is setup.

Yes, the antenna is inside the hangar, with a metal door, but high enough gain means I have a solid connection about 99% of the time.

But, hey, I got to use a fancy looking antenna:

 

 

[EricJ]

9 hours ago, N201MKTurbo said:

 

Put one of these outside your hangar on an extension cord:

https://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-N300-Range-Extender-EX2700/dp/B00L0YLRUW/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1541593270&sr=8-3&keywords=wifi+extender

Aka a "bridge".   I think this is closest to what Brice is asking for, if I understand correctly.