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What should i buy ?!?
Hi to all,
I've two houses. I should bring internet in the second house.
In my first house i've a modem router DG834G v3. Very soon it will come a R7000.
Now the problem, i don't know what i've should to buy in the second house to bring the internet collection. I've to buy an access point or a range extender ?!?
I currently have an access point netgear WG602 with a 54mb with an external antenna pointing to the first house, but the connection is slow.
How can I fix the problem?!?
The two houses are about 20 meters away and there are no obstacles.
Thanks a lot.
I've two houses. I should bring internet in the second house.
In my first house i've a modem router DG834G v3. Very soon it will come a R7000.
Now the problem, i don't know what i've should to buy in the second house to bring the internet collection. I've to buy an access point or a range extender ?!?
I currently have an access point netgear WG602 with a 54mb with an external antenna pointing to the first house, but the connection is slow.
How can I fix the problem?!?
The two houses are about 20 meters away and there are no obstacles.
Thanks a lot.
23 Replies
- In the second house i've installed an access point or a range extender ?!?
- You would need some external antenna capable AP to strength the signal at main home and or from the second house. Extender products do not able to connect external antenna with netgear extender products.
20M is @60ft and with line sight should be an issues if there is no other wireless signal that also may weaken.
If current WG602 can de-attach the antenna then you may want to look external antenna (directional antenna) - What product do you recommend to buy ?!?
I've the R7000 such as router in first house. I can't connect any external antenna to R7000 in the first house, so i can use only the external antenna in the second house.
But what instruments i have to buy to take the wifi signal from the first house ?!?
Access point or range extender ?!?
Is it better to buy it with 2.4 or 5 GHz band?!?
I would like take advantage of the same speed as the R7000.
Thanks a lot. - You can test out with as is with R7000 first and see results
- Ok, before to buy another access point i'll test the features of the r7000 in house one and the access point netgear WG602 with has mounted an external antenna TL-ANT2414A in house two.
For you if the performance is not fulfilled what I could buy, but considering that I can only act on the equipment in the house number two and not in house number one where there is the R7000.
An external access point ?!?
A range extender ?!?
A most powerfull antenna ?!? Actually my antenna is external 14DB.
Thanks a lot for your experience ;) - If you have external antenna on WG602 then I don't see an issues
- yeah i've installed an antenna on WG602. We consider that the signal arrives perfectly but for me the speed of wifi is slow. In what way can i increase the speed of wifi ?!? Changing access point and buy an access point wifi ac ?!? Buy a range extender replacing the access point ?!? Buy an antenna with better performance.
Otherwise today i'll do some test, i'll tell you how many db is the wifi signal where's there is the access point WG602.
Thanks a lot. - If you repeat from AP it will be half duplex so that is one loss of performance.
Run solid cables in the ground would be your most performance. Don't take the convenient and try run the cables. :) - It's more difficult run the cables from the two houses. :) I know it would be the best solution.
I'll try to set up R7000 such as repeater with the other access point that have the antenna in the second house.
I've only a question, in what way i've set up the R7000 ?!? Wireless repeater or wireless base station ?!? In both case i've to use onyl wifi 54mb and wep key ?!? Can i use wpa-psk key and a faster speed of wifi ?!?
Thanks a lot. - You need AC capable adapter on PC to max the r7000 and wpa2 is need it
Also repeating itself will be limited to no security . There is AC extender. So I would buy that too
