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03-28-2016, 07:54 PM | #2 |
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Anytime you use an extender, your transfer rates are cut in half from that extender. That's just a hardware limitation of extenders. Run cat6 to each floor. You can put a cheap switch on each floor at the end of the cat6 cable and have multiple ports. You could then also put individual access points on any floor that wouldn't cut the transfer rates in half.
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I don't understand the concept of the Access Point. Does it broadcast like a router? |
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The main structure of the home is steel and concrete, so I'm fairly limited where I can run lines. |
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However, if you want a quick and dirty option, or if you can't easily run Ethernet cables to other parts of your house, you could always go with a power line adapter. It uses your home power lines as the physical network cable. I know, it sounds like a horrifically bad idea. When I first read about these things I thought it was the dumbest idea I'd ever heard, but later I decided to give it a try. I have used them successfully to get decent network speeds on the second floor of my house (my Internet service is in my basement). You plug in the power line adapter close to your cable modem, and run an Ethernet cable from the modem to the adapter. Plug the matching power line adapter in on the second floor. Then you can either run an Ethernet cable from it to a cheap switch like Fish described for use by devices with Ethernet ports, or you can run it to a cheap wireless access point for use by wireless devices. The main difference between a wireless access point and a router is that the router often acts as a DHCP server (it assigns dynamic IP addresses), and it can be connected directly to your ISP connection. The wireless access point doesn't do that. It just extends your existing network to wireless devices. |
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House is floor A, B, C. You'd have your modem and router on floor A. Install switches on both floor B and floor C. Run cat6 cable from router to floor B and floor C switches. Have 2 access points, plug access points into switch on floor B and the other on floor C. That would give you hard wired connectivity on every floor, as well as wireless on floor B and C, and a strong signal because it's just serving those floors and isn't halved because of extenders. Router is still controlling all connectivity. The switches, APs just extend that. Gigabit switch: http://www.amazon.com/Netgear-GS105N...gigabit+switch AP: http://www.amazon.com/TP-LINK-TL-WA8...n+access+point
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The nice thing about the Extender is that we get 5 bars on the top floor, which provided a solid signal for our Roku equipped TV's but without it, the signal is very weak. It sounds as if the best course of action is to hire a company to run Ethernet cables under the house and to rooms in the opposite side of the home, then set up the Netgear extender as an Access Point, while adding a gigabit switch to my wife's office. The other issue is that we're paying $29.99 a month plus tax for a second VoIP line but if we can achieve a fast, reliable signal to my wife's office, we could drop that expense, as she would be able to make calls on her iPhone in her office, which she's unable to do at this time. If so, I'd have no problem bumping up to 300 Mbps, which should be more than sufficient for the time being. |
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Ack! I just had the cable moved from Floor A to Floor B. Thanks again for all of the info! |
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It's irrelevant which floor it's on now. Floor letters are interchangeable in my example. You're porting the network connection via wired networking to all floors. So it doesn't matter.
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I just realized I explained an extender to you when you asked about access points. And yet you repped me and thanked me even though I told you what you already knew.
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Hmmm. I didn't get a rep, or a thanks. However, I did get a "Hey bud, ...".
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