hi,
my parents house is an old building with 2 floors and fat walls (for the most part). I finally went around to lay a couple cables this sommer to allow some network functionality.
1 wlan router sits on the upper floor, quite close to the telephone line coming from the street outside, goes then to a gigabit switch in the upper living room and from there I laid 2 lines straigth across the house.
Wlan coverage is naturally horrible and only covering the adjoining room - the upper living room is street side, the lower is garden-side at the diagonal other end.
I`d like to put an accesspoint there, idealy putting it above the inner door so a good portion of the house and garden could be covered directly or with one wall / "bounce" in between.
Now today there is no switch downstairs, but if I need one I`d put it to the tv which would be a rather unfortunate place for an wlan antenna, so a simple cable to an unobtrusive access point above the door would be best.
From what I gathered I came across these points/issues:
Would be grateful for tips on this, I feel like there is a certain lack of information for bringing up a network with multiple Wlan AP (asside from some horrible hacks like wireless Bridges).
my parents house is an old building with 2 floors and fat walls (for the most part). I finally went around to lay a couple cables this sommer to allow some network functionality.
1 wlan router sits on the upper floor, quite close to the telephone line coming from the street outside, goes then to a gigabit switch in the upper living room and from there I laid 2 lines straigth across the house.
Wlan coverage is naturally horrible and only covering the adjoining room - the upper living room is street side, the lower is garden-side at the diagonal other end.
I`d like to put an accesspoint there, idealy putting it above the inner door so a good portion of the house and garden could be covered directly or with one wall / "bounce" in between.
Now today there is no switch downstairs, but if I need one I`d put it to the tv which would be a rather unfortunate place for an wlan antenna, so a simple cable to an unobtrusive access point above the door would be best.
From what I gathered I came across these points/issues:
- simple wlan access-points are significantly more expensive than comparable routers
- most wlan routers cant fully move their antennas and are expected to lay on a table
- just screwing an antenna above the door would need a long cable - and thats not recommended for signal degradation
- ideally id like a router/AP with Poe? one less cable to plaster to the wall in the living room.
- can I use the same ssid/pw to allow devices to seemless switch to the strongest signal?
Would be grateful for tips on this, I feel like there is a certain lack of information for bringing up a network with multiple Wlan AP (asside from some horrible hacks like wireless Bridges).
