Very large house-how do I get Wifi throughout the house?

yheitman

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My sister called me with a thorny question. She lives in Southern California and just had a huge 6,000 sq foot, one story house remodeled. She has Time Warner Cable and she just made the remark to me that she is going to need to buy 3-4 modem/routers for her house to get WiFi throughout. I told her the most she needed was two because she has a brick wall in the middle of the home that kind of separates it into two different areas. I don't think she'll pick up wireless on the other side of the brick wall from where she will have her modem/router. I told her if she moved it to the front of the house (the brick wall doesn't extend all the way to the front of the house) she may get a signal throughout the whole one story house. What do you guys think?

What do you think she may need to get and stay connected? She says she had the house wired with ethernet ports in all the rooms. Does she need one modem/router and another router or??? Do they need to somehow be networked together? Any help someone could extend would be appreciated.
 
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Yes, she will be able to pick up a WiFi signal. I am living in a 7000 sq foot, one story double brick house and I can pick up Wifi signal outside at the very back fence of the hose.The speed won't be very fast but should be good enough for internet and standard definition and compressed high definition video.

The computer I am typing this on is about 6m away from the WiFi router going through at least 2 very solid brick wall (going diagonally across the house so I am estimating). Still gets 9MB/s max, fluctuates between 5-8MB/s on wireless N (2.4GHz, 40MHz channel width).
start with 1 wifi router and try. you can't even guess how well wifi will work because of a wall, you need to try and see what speeds each device gets in each room.

if the house is wired for ethernet though, they all have to lead somewhere and that's where you would need a router plugged in to probably a big switch with enough ports to connect all the ends of the into.
 
Yes, she will be able to pick up a WiFi signal. I am living in a 7000 sq foot, one story double brick house and I can pick up Wifi signal outside at the very back fence of the hose.The speed won't be very fast but should be good enough for internet and standard definition and compressed high definition video.

The computer I am typing this on is about 6m away from the WiFi router going through at least 2 very solid brick wall (going diagonally across the house so I am estimating). Still gets 9MB/s max, fluctuates between 5-8MB/s on wireless N (2.4GHz, 40MHz channel width).
 
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