Wireless router advice

[Joker]

Well, I would bury an ethernet cable and still may have to.
The trouble is that between the house and shop is about 80 feet of hard packed gravel driveway, about 8" deep.
By the way I don't do any gaming out in the shop, I just need good internet access for looking up information, and occasionally ordering a part or something.

Maybe I should get one of the new routers, like the Netgear Nighthawk that was mentioned, and then I could get either an extender or one of those Ruckus APs to boost the range.

And Bizman...I feel lucky if I can just set one of these things up and it kind of works.
The idea of building my own directional antenna from a tin can or a kettle lid has me 
Are you related to MacGyver by any chance?

[save]

If they share same home electrical wiring, Powerline adapters might work.
I used it in the basement of my concrete house before I fixed a permanent house Ethernet network, I got about 150mb out of a 500mb power adapter set.

you need to wire the base adapter to your router.

https://www.lifewire.com/what-is-a-powerline-adapter-1846813

[flyndung]

If they share same home electrical wiring, Powerline adapters might work.
I used it in the basement of my concrete house before I fixed a permanent house Ethernet network, I got about 150mb out of a 500mb power adapter set.

you need to wire the base adapter to your router.

https://www.lifewire.com/what-is-a-powerline-adapter-1846813

these work great!

[Drano]

If they share same home electrical wiring, Powerline adapters might work.
I used it in the basement of my concrete house before I fixed a permanent house Ethernet network, I got about 150mb out of a 500mb power adapter set.

you need to wire the base adapter to your router.

https://www.lifewire.com/what-is-a-powerline-adapter-1846813

Ah yeah there ya go! That'll probably work!

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[Bizman]

Joker, no, I'm not related to McGyver. I have a friend who might well be!

But seriously, some years ago a computer magazine tested several types of directional antennas and the tin can version was the most effective by a margin. The instructions were so simple even I could understand them: http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Cantenna among several others has some very clear instructions.

If you're going to bury a cable into gravel, slide it into a garden hose. We've been using that method to run the thin wire of decorative LED lights across our driveway. It's been buried only a couple of inches deep which seems to be enough. The lights have been changed a couple of times, rabbits seem to like the taste of the insulation. But the 1/4" hose has been the same for several years now, no marks of breaking so far.