First of all, sorry if this is the wrong place to post this (and please let me know a better place to post).
My dad has a welding/pipefitting business and he has his shop on the same property as his house. A very large portion of his job is looking at different prospective jobs' blueprints and doing research on them. Normally he gets full printouts and does his work on a blueprint table up in his shop that's worked pretty well, but now that technology is becoming more and more of a thing in his industry, he has switched to primarily doing this work on computer with digital versions of the blueprints. The problem is that his work computer is in the house, because that's where the internet is. He really wants to have a computer up in his shop so that he doesn't have to constantly go back and forth while working. This has been a problem for years for him and he's finally willing to invest in a solution to get a computer and internet up at his shop. Now, we live in Maine (so lots of snow/ice/elements) and his shop is about 600-700 feet away from the house, so the wifi doesn't reach, and with a computer setup and the large blueprint files, he would really need to have a decent download speed. His solution was to just buy a 2nd internet line from our ISP to the shop, but I feel there's a much more cost effective way to get internet up there than buying a whole new line. I'm not super versed in networking, but I feel that we could somehow figure out how to split the coaxial cable line that goes into the house modem and run one up there (could easily bury the small portion that would have to cross the lawn, the rest would lie in the woods so we could probably just leave it exposed I think) and connect it to a 2nd modem in his shop. Would this work? Are there any better solutions? If this would work, what would we need to buy (other than the cable) to do this?
TL;DR: need to provide internet to a workshop that's 600-700 feet from nearest internet source, need to know best way to do this
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