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range extender of access point?
I currently have a Nighthawk X6 AC3200 Tri Band WiFi Router and have been having a helluva time getting wifi signal on the other end of my house. Today, I bought the Nighthawk X6S AC3000 Tri Band WiF...
additude wrote:
The extender would be easier to setup than an access point.
Really? A standards compliant network cable and you have a reliable connection from the router to the place where the access point has ot be installed - very diferent from the hit-and-miss with these wireless backhaul experimenting, where the results often show that distance is to big, the building construction is to prohibitive to 5 GHz, the connecitons become unreliable, never had thrse problems with wired access point installations. Granted - installing a cable does take more time and effort. However, it's worth every Cent, every minute fo installation work.
Anyone can drape a cable over stuff, hide the cable behind desks, chairs, furniture, tack it to the wall running down a hallway and knotch it thru door closings and maybe even just drill holes thru walls and push the cable thru them....
But if you wanted at least the minimal semi-professional installation then it's going to take more work than just having cable all over the place. Especially depending on installation requirements which the OP did not specify.
At least to have it neat in appearance may require fishing walls or running cable in the attic....
But who knows...?? Surely you do of course.
Why don't you just stick to answering the OP's questions with your own ideas instead of plucking feathers out of other peoples ideas...
additude wrote:
Especially depending on installation requirements which the OP did not specify.
Exactly, that's the point - we both know nothing about the requirements and the OP environment.
This wasn't intended as feather picking. Sorry please if you got it like that, this was not my intention. Just brought up the - in my opinion - much better, more reliable, long term solution .... the undoubted best way to do it. But hey, everybody on it's own. Believe me, I have two extenders in operation here at home, one towards the garage, one to the garden house - mostly to remain up2date on this consumer technology.
OK, I can deal with that but for me personally, no matter what the installation, if I weigh the difference between configuring a WiFi device as opposed to running cable... which would mean in this situation, running a length of cable equal to or greater than the distance that an extender would/could cover....
I'll choose typing settings on a keyboard every time....
- Thank you everybody for the answers. One more question. I have multiple network drops all over the house. Can I utilize one of those network drops to plug-in and ethernet cable to use as an access point? I’m supposing it will work just fine but I was unsure if it needed to be a direct line from my router to the access point. As it stands My router is plugged into my cable modem and from there into a 24 port hub into which all of my network drops are plugged into