mikefamig said:
What sort of wireless will work at 200' through walls and with all of the potential interference in a garage when you are working. I have a similar situation and had no luck with wireless. I had to add a second access point wireless transmitter in the detached garage just to get wifi music around the yard while I'm mowing.
Mike.
EDIT - I should add that the wireless AP in the garage is connected to the gateway in the house by a buried Cat6 cable.
The have point-to-point WiFi systems that easily go 10 miles or more. My house has two WiFi access points for my house and they track the "rogue" access points around my house, to pick the best channels to use. At this moment they see 94 access points. I must live deep in the city? NOPE, about 35 miles from the city in the suburbs. These are plain-old wifi access points. So if you don't think wifi travels, you are just not looking in the right place.
The distance problem is NOT the access point, it's the phone or tablet. These devices have small radios and don't go far. So if you want to go 200 ft. you need to get one of the mesh systems out there, or at least use a regular router with a wifi "bridge" on the other end to pick it up and distribute it to your devices (wired).