I need to make a good configuration for a customer of mine who lives on a farm. He lives in an area with very poor cellphone signals so he wants to have a good wifi in and around his house. Inside his house I want to make a wifi netword around a Nighthawk R7000 router, an EX8000 extender and an EX7500 extender. The latter one is chosen because it can directly be placed in a wall outlet.
So far so good I think. Now I need to place several accersspoints around the farmbuilding. I wonder if I can use Netgear WND930 accesspoints. If someone walkes around the house or inside out while making a phonecall using wifi he needs to switch fast and without interruption from one extender or accesspoint to the other.
Who can advice me with this?
Thanks in advance.
Model: EX8000|AC3000 Nighthawk X6S Tri Band WiFi Mesh Extender
Good WiFi at this scale can't be built based on a consumer router, consumer extenders, ... and the WND930 - while being the only outdoor AP from Netgear as of writing - is with it's 802.11n technology hopelessly outdated.
The "best" WiFi is established by installing decent wireless access points connected by network cabling / fiber. Is a coverage with network cables (reminder: max cable length 100 meters) and where required fiber for longer distances with some local (PoE) switches for the AP in scope for this project?
Thanks for your reply, Shumaku. In that case I will have to figure out something else. I have the EX8000 and the R7000 in store and hoped to use and sell them here. But I have to find better outdoor AP's.
Look into the Netgear Insight system offerings .... you can even configure and act as an MSP ... For the APs, and distributed switches, you might have to find some [outdoor] enclosures. Depends a little it on the weather conditions your network should operate over summer and winter.
