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AnxietyClown
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Post subject: WiFi and my very loooooong apartment - SOLVED Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2013 11:01 am |
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Hola friends and happy holidays. My Brooklyn apartment is very loooong. Time Warners all in one router/modem/wifi reaches the front 40% of the apartment (TV room and my computer area + roku for the TV room) but we have a Roku in the back playroom (far back of the apartment) and Santa is bringing a PS3. Plus I like to be able to check email from my bedroom which is way back there as well. Right now I have a Netgear Range Extender (which is adequate, but not amazing). I did the measurements and it's going to be about 150 feet of CAT-6 to reach the back room from the main TWC router box. Right now the Netgear is okay, but if I was willing to run 150 ft of cable, could I set up a 2nd router of some kind back there to blast the whole area, really thoroughly? Questions: 1) What's the best way to extend the range to cover the back half of the apartment with good wifi, reliably? 2) What product do you guys recommend for this task? 3) Where should I buy the cable? Thanks! AC
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Post subject: Re: WiFi and my very loooooong apartment Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2013 1:13 pm |
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I'd actually like to do something similar at my house. My wifi BARELY reaches my shop out back and I drop it all the time. I'd like to put a repeater or something out there but I'm not sure what exactly I need.
I know I can run a cable out there and put another wireless router on it, but I'd rather not be running 2 separate wifi networks if I can avoid it. I'd prefer to just repeat the one I have in the house. any product like that?
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Post subject: Re: WiFi and my very loooooong apartment Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2013 1:45 pm |
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I'm not being particularly helpful, but I know this kind of product exists. My institute has the same wireless network across the whole campus (larger than a Brooklyn apartment), and I know there are several broadcast points. Unfortunately, that's all I know.
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Post subject: Re: WiFi and my very loooooong apartment Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2013 7:08 pm |
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Hey AC you should be able to get that length of cable for cheap on Amazon (I did it at my house). It will be MUCH cheaper than at HD or Lowes or a mom & pop. You can also get a coupler to mate two smaller cables together for less than a buck. edit: $9.99 for CAT5e on Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Cat5e-Networking- ... 5+150+feetMaybe you can just run the cable and connect it to a hub for the Roku and playstation, bypassing wifi altogether? I think the thing you and Ash are looking for to extend your Wifi range is called an wireless access point. They're like $40 or less on Amazon (I bought one once to setup on-demand for my DVR w/out going through DirecTV).
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Post subject: Re: WiFi and my very loooooong apartment Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2013 8:17 pm |
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being I work for a local ISP this is what I usually suggest when a repeat is nit enough and there are a few option
1: centrally locate the gateway(modem/router unit) in the home to better coverage, this is ideal if everything is wireless.
2: get a decent 2 router that can act as a repeater which will be a little more powerful and give you the ports to hard wire
3:this is what I highly recommend as this is what I deal with all day, if money is not much of a concern ditch the gateway specially if you are renting it from TimeWarner, gateways suck as they are limited on settings and their wifi performance is horrible and on avg will get you about 50ft and instead get yourself a DOCSIS 3 modem like the Motorola SB6141 and pair it up with a decent router that is dual band and I highly recommend the ASUS router some of their mid level router and higher end one have excellent range and you can even change the power levels on the antenna. I know with my ASUS router I have at the far end of my apartment and its about a 100ft to the other end and have block and metal stud construction I get full bars and I know I can go out side by some distance and only have my antenna power at about 50%
if you decide to go with a access point or a stand alone modem and router most decent routers start in the price range of $70-$100 and most mid/high router are in the $100-$150
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Post subject: Re: WiFi and my very loooooong apartment Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2013 8:19 pm |
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Post subject: Re: WiFi and my very loooooong apartment Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2013 12:59 am |
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Post subject: Re: WiFi and my very loooooong apartment Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2013 2:02 pm |
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Same problem here, ordering the same product, thanks for the advice!
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Post subject: Re: WiFi and my very loooooong apartment - SOLVED Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2014 1:33 pm |
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The solution, in my case, has been a hard wired access point. I ran CAT-6 from my main router (along the crown moulding) to - more or less - the middle of the apartment. I attached a TP Link access point which takes ethernet in and then broadcasts wifi. The back half of the apartment now has flawless, good signal wifi as does the front. The only hassle is that I need to switch between networks when i take the iPad from one end of the house to the other.
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Post subject: Re: WiFi and my very loooooong apartment - SOLVED Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2014 10:31 am |
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Post subject: Re: WiFi and my very loooooong apartment - SOLVED Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2014 4:05 pm |
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