- Aug 19, 2014
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To start off I live in a large home with my parents and we are trying to get the wireless to reach my room which is on the other side of the house. Money isn't an issue, but we aren't trying to spend an outrageous amount. We are just trying to get the connection some what equal through out the home.
We have Comcast internet and the speed is good the only problem is that we switched to directTV for the TV service, so we had to move the modem and router to a room on one side of the house due to how the wiring in the house is ran. We tried to use the adapter things that you plug into the wall to run the internet through the electrical wires, but the signal was diminished too much to have a strong connection at the other side.
Our next idea is to use cat5 we have running from where the router/modem used to be located (which is in a centralized location) to the room that the modem is currently in. The wire isn't connected to a jack in the modem room currently so we have some guys coming to set it up for us.
Our new modem has a router build into it as well, which I'm not entirely fond of because it seems that it never works quite as well as having it separate. We have a really good ASUS router that I want to use for the primary wireless functions and we are going to plug the cat5 to the modem then have the ASUS on the other side to have the wireless centralized.
Does it really matter if the modem has the wireless going if nothing is connected to it? Or would it be better for the speed to turn the routing functions off on the modem and rely only on the ASUS.
The router is ASUS RT-AC66U and has ac-1750. The modem is decent, but I'm sure that the ASUS has better wireless capabilities. If the model of the modem is necessary I can get it, I just don't think its entirely relevant in this situation.
Any suggestions would be appreciated we are tired of having fast internet, but it being crippled because of range issues!! Thanks in advance.
We have Comcast internet and the speed is good the only problem is that we switched to directTV for the TV service, so we had to move the modem and router to a room on one side of the house due to how the wiring in the house is ran. We tried to use the adapter things that you plug into the wall to run the internet through the electrical wires, but the signal was diminished too much to have a strong connection at the other side.
Our next idea is to use cat5 we have running from where the router/modem used to be located (which is in a centralized location) to the room that the modem is currently in. The wire isn't connected to a jack in the modem room currently so we have some guys coming to set it up for us.
Our new modem has a router build into it as well, which I'm not entirely fond of because it seems that it never works quite as well as having it separate. We have a really good ASUS router that I want to use for the primary wireless functions and we are going to plug the cat5 to the modem then have the ASUS on the other side to have the wireless centralized.
Does it really matter if the modem has the wireless going if nothing is connected to it? Or would it be better for the speed to turn the routing functions off on the modem and rely only on the ASUS.
The router is ASUS RT-AC66U and has ac-1750. The modem is decent, but I'm sure that the ASUS has better wireless capabilities. If the model of the modem is necessary I can get it, I just don't think its entirely relevant in this situation.
Any suggestions would be appreciated we are tired of having fast internet, but it being crippled because of range issues!! Thanks in advance.
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