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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:
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
A 24 port hub will slow your network down....
Switches result in faster traffic and improved network bandwidth. An unmanaged switch would be a value add.
You can surely use those drops as long as they are operational. That will save you a load of wire routing and an AP will always be faster than an extender as far as network performance goes.
Take an AP and plug it into one of your ethernet drops from the hub via the router and Voila!! Connection Operational.....
Consider replacing the Hub with an unmanaged switch.