All sorted now thanks temp - got a direct cable from the router inside the house.

Going to fix a permenant cable from house router to inside the shed then connect another router and go from there.

Everyone's help has been very much appreciated - thanks guys!!

A faraday cage happens only with metallic structures. If it's plastic & wood, I'm afraid lightning damage is pretty possible. But then again, it depends on how many houses or buildings are around, how far & tall they are, how many lightning strikes you see per year etc.

It is an all metal shed.

We do not get litening strikes in my part of the world - thankfully!

Then it's all good, go for it ! And may I ask... where are you from ?

The UK

Are you serious ? I would have expected tons of lightning there...

Nope, hardly any storms at all - which is a shame because I love to watch them!

Then I invite you to Romania - the storms here are quite something.:haha:

Found Solution to Penetrate Shed Wall

Hi all....

Im not that computer savy and have never written on a thread before, but thought I would after my success....

I found this thread a few days ago when I had the same problem....my teenage son has moved into the renovated shed out the back ....he wants to use his laptop and also xbox live....

Our problem like yours was that our wireless internet would not penetrate the shed wall....so like you I turned to the internet for help.....I was thinking along your lines of extra routers and cables running the two together....

So yesterday I called into JB hifi to ask the question and this bloke said he had the product to solve my problem if mains power was connected to the shed.....we did and he sold me a WD Livewire Powerline AV Network kit CPL costing $129....and it solved the problem.....in the box you get two identical boxes which plug into mains power.....one inside near the wireless router and the other in the shed.....each has an enthanet cable.....one plugs into the router and the other I have plugged into the xbox console in the shed.....there are 4 ports on each box so you can connect other things like PC, laptop, Hd TV etc....the salesman explained the signal then runs through the mains power rather than just using the wireless signal....it was just so easy and works a treat as I was sceptical.

Just thought I would add this to the thread.

Cheers Trace )

Never used or worked with mains networking, so I don't know anything practical about these devices. Is the speed OK ? Say you want to download a movie or something large, how is the speed in the shed?

Mains Networking

Im only a novice at this too..... my son was just happy to have his xbox live working in his room in the shed.....we haven't downloaded a movie yet on the xbox.....though must say that his xbox works better using this method in the shed than inside just using the wireless router.... his games upgrades and downloads are much faster and no drop out.....so we are very happy.....and lucky the $129 out lay wasn't wasted.....I imagine there would be cheaper and more expensive versions of this device using the mains power out there. )

Well, thanks for adding that Trace - thats another option to look at, thank you!