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Need wireless range extender recommendations
Hello,
I have an odd shaped house. It is very wide but not very deep. I have 55 mpbs Comcast line coming into Comcast provided Cisco DPC3008 Modem hardwired to Netgear WNDR3700v4 Dual Band Wireless Router. Both pieces of hardware are located in large utility room in basement. Hardware is located in basement since that is wear my home based business is.
I am getting very little if any signal degradation from utility room to finished part of basement where my office is. I get alot (around 20-25 mbps) from basement to first floor, and more (around 35-40 mbps) from basement to second floor.
I am running a variety of devices at my house(From Windows 7 to Andriod, Apple and iOS, wireless printer/scanner/fax), most run on my 5G band.
I am looking for a high quality/high reliability wireless range extender.
Should I go for plug in outlet model or run a Cat5e to third floor and run a secondary network?
My fear is that the two networks will interfere with one another.
I know only enough to be dangerous. Any thoughts/suggestions especially from past experience would be lovely.
Cheers,
Jon
I have an odd shaped house. It is very wide but not very deep. I have 55 mpbs Comcast line coming into Comcast provided Cisco DPC3008 Modem hardwired to Netgear WNDR3700v4 Dual Band Wireless Router. Both pieces of hardware are located in large utility room in basement. Hardware is located in basement since that is wear my home based business is.
I am getting very little if any signal degradation from utility room to finished part of basement where my office is. I get alot (around 20-25 mbps) from basement to first floor, and more (around 35-40 mbps) from basement to second floor.
I am running a variety of devices at my house(From Windows 7 to Andriod, Apple and iOS, wireless printer/scanner/fax), most run on my 5G band.
I am looking for a high quality/high reliability wireless range extender.
Should I go for plug in outlet model or run a Cat5e to third floor and run a secondary network?
My fear is that the two networks will interfere with one another.
I know only enough to be dangerous. Any thoughts/suggestions especially from past experience would be lovely.
Cheers,
Jon
3 Replies
- ran CAT5e cable and install access point. you can use multiple 3700 with wired to the main router
http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/965 - JONEVENS,
jmizoguchi is right. The more extenders you have, the more you will have your network/band working fine. Considering your home setup, Basically you'll have more interference if you a little of those extenders (that is if you want the whole of your band to be utilized to its maximum).
Just have one access point. That will be fine. FOcus more on extending the network so as just to lessen connectivity issues :) - here is some planning
http://www.cloudtrax.com/docs/network_planning_guide.pdf
I personally us openmesh but doc is really great to read up ..
