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How to provide good wifi coverage in a newly build house
Hello I've been spending a good evening digging into what product to buy to improve the wireless connection in my new house. The house is full of isolation materials and wireless connections ...
pdaalder wrote:
I have no justification why but my preference is to have most of the communications over wire and have as little as possible to be wireless, or maybe I should say as short as possible.
I agree with that.
My justification is that wifi is more likely to suffer from interference and is easier to set up.
The reason for using Orbi is that it is simpler to set up and easier to manage. Apart from that it isn't miles apart from using a wifi router with repeaters added to fill any gaps in the wifi. But if you don't have gaps, a plain router is fine. But you have chosen one of the least capable.
Plug your details into product pages.
Orbi: Whole Home WiFi System for Better WiFi Everywhere | NETGEAR
Wifi Router | Wireless Routers for Home | NETGEAR
Then check this place for comments and the usual review sites.
Where possible, use wired Ethernet to connect anything that does not move around. TVs, for example, are much easier to manage on Ethernet than Wifi.
hi Michael
THank you for your answer. I did explore the mesh option, however I don't like the option of a device retransmitting information over the air to another device. Aside from this, the fact our house is extremely well isolated apperently results is very poor communication through the air.
My idea was to put a device that is connected over wire to the switch and that allows wireless devices to connect to it. That is why I had selected the product R6260 / AC1600 Smart WiFi Router Dual Band Gigabit (link), which is the product that your link (https://www.netgear.com/home/products/networking/wifi-routers/) to the wifi product pages also returned. However I also found a product named WAC124, which is not listed in the product page, but reading the characteristics does match my requirements.
What is the difference between the WAC and AC products?
Peter
Could it be that AC acts as router/access points and WAC only acts as access point?
pdaalder wrote:
Could it be that AC acts as router/access points and WAC only acts as access point?
Something like that. Looks like the WAC124 is an access point that can also "do router", while the R6260 is the other way round, a router that you can operate as an access point.
The R6260 isn't the most powerful device around. It doesn't even qualify as a Nighthawk router.
I'm afraid that I don't follow most of the rest of your response. The idea that "a device retransmitting information over the air to another device" is dangerous sounds like poor understanding of how wifi security works. If you don't want devices to retransmit information over the air to another device then you need to avoid all use of wifi.
And I have no idea what you mean by "the fact our house is extremely well isolated apparently results is very poor communication through the air". That also sounds like folklore rather than science". Even if you mean "insulated" it is wrong.