Extending wireless range to a different building please help!!!

Warning! This is long but I’m trying to be thorough
Ok guys I have been on a quest to search for a good and somewhat reasonably priced way to extend my home wireless network. I am going to be a detailed as I can so you all can draw the best picture in your head. Also I would like to stress that I have very little knowledge of what the industries acronyms mean, so the more detailed you are the better and it will be greatly appreciated. I know how to set up a basic home network but that’s not saying much when it pretty much does it itself.
Here’s the thing. I have Comcast cable Internet hooked to a Linksys WRTS54GS. It is currently centrally located in the house and works great anywhere in the house (3300sq ft), so moving it to a better location in order to extend the signal shouldn’t be an issue. Approx. 160 feet away is a large shop my dad and I just completed and want wireless Internet. At 160 feet from the house, you are at the very front of the shop and then it goes back another 60 feet you will be entering the office where the computer is. The office is another 15 to 20 feet long giving a total length of 80 feet. So currently we are at 240 ish feet total. As stated above, I can move the home modem to a place that will be sitting on a window ledge facing the shop. 160 feet away is another window in the shop that I can put whatever device you guys recommend. The hopes are for that the recommended device can incorporate the entire shop of about 2600 sq feet so we can have laptops anywhere we want but mostly in the office
Now I heard of many different options repeaters, bigger antenna, second modem (which might be the repeater thing.) I just don’t know what exactly to do. I currently use a Macbook (mac haters please no comments J ) and I can get a very faint signal from the home network as well as accessing the Internet but if I move a little or a slight breeze develops, then it goes away.
Cliff notes
I need to extend my signal with my Linksys WRTS54GS a total of 240 feet but I can place something in between that distance at the 160 foot marker, shorter than that it will be sitting in the driveway. Clear line of site and only have to go through two windows if that even matters.
Thanks so much
Jacob

If the signal is as faint as you describe it, then you'll need to find a way to get an ethernet connection in or very near the office so that you can add a secondary router to broadcast the wired signal as a wireless signal using option #1 in this guide.
I have no experience with external antennas designed to increase wireless signals so I can't tell you how much of a difference that would make and I would also advice against buying a repeater since all it would be repeating is the low signal and everything attributed to it (low speed, high pings, etc.)
Maybe other forum members will be able to provide you with better suggestions.
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