It has taken a while but i'm getting fibre install next month and i have the option of up to 150Mb speeds.
I live in a 3 storey detached house, the rooms are divided by block so wifi signals penetrate easier than solid brick but i still struggle with weak signals.
I currently have 1x 2.4ghz router on the ground floor. On the third floor i get about 39Mbps with an actual tested throughput of around 15-20Mbps. This clearly doesn't cut it. On the ground floor the mbp reports 145Mbps.
I have thought a lot about my options. I have a lot of apple gear, a few laptops, AC enabled, an AC iMac and a number of phones including an AC iPhone 6. I purchased an Asus RT-68U but even that struggled to provide more than 30-60Mbps when the laptops shared data on the top floor. So even though the 5ghz signal reached the to floor it was only marginally faster than my current router.
So now i'm left trying to figure out how i get reliable ac like fast speeds all over the house for wifi devices - we only have 1 desktop.
1) An airport express running 5ghz into a power line adapter (but my 500Mbps adapter is limited by the 100Mbps ethernet port) - have 1 of these on each floor
2) Airport extreme on ground floor with airport express repeating on 2 and 3. Airport express doesn't do wifi-ac and repeating halves the speed
3) Get someone in to try and install ethernet ports and cat6 all over the house so i can plug in wifi-ac access points on each floor. But a) i can't see many wifi-ac access points available and b) is this a good idea because doesn't it use 80mhz of bandwidth, do i have enough spectrum to ensure each of the base stations doesn't interfere with each other
4) Find a really powerful wifi-ac router than can do the entire house
5) Accept its very very hard over such a large area to get wifi speeds faster than 15MB-20MB/sec. So should i except this and just stick with power line adapters (my 500Mbps ones connect at around 138Mbps) and accept the 100Mbps port limit and run airport expresses on each floor and accept over wifi i'm limited to 9MB/Sec - 11MB/Sec, loosing out on my 150Mbps broadband top speed.
thanks guys
I live in a 3 storey detached house, the rooms are divided by block so wifi signals penetrate easier than solid brick but i still struggle with weak signals.
I currently have 1x 2.4ghz router on the ground floor. On the third floor i get about 39Mbps with an actual tested throughput of around 15-20Mbps. This clearly doesn't cut it. On the ground floor the mbp reports 145Mbps.
I have thought a lot about my options. I have a lot of apple gear, a few laptops, AC enabled, an AC iMac and a number of phones including an AC iPhone 6. I purchased an Asus RT-68U but even that struggled to provide more than 30-60Mbps when the laptops shared data on the top floor. So even though the 5ghz signal reached the to floor it was only marginally faster than my current router.
So now i'm left trying to figure out how i get reliable ac like fast speeds all over the house for wifi devices - we only have 1 desktop.
1) An airport express running 5ghz into a power line adapter (but my 500Mbps adapter is limited by the 100Mbps ethernet port) - have 1 of these on each floor
2) Airport extreme on ground floor with airport express repeating on 2 and 3. Airport express doesn't do wifi-ac and repeating halves the speed
3) Get someone in to try and install ethernet ports and cat6 all over the house so i can plug in wifi-ac access points on each floor. But a) i can't see many wifi-ac access points available and b) is this a good idea because doesn't it use 80mhz of bandwidth, do i have enough spectrum to ensure each of the base stations doesn't interfere with each other
4) Find a really powerful wifi-ac router than can do the entire house
5) Accept its very very hard over such a large area to get wifi speeds faster than 15MB-20MB/sec. So should i except this and just stick with power line adapters (my 500Mbps ones connect at around 138Mbps) and accept the 100Mbps port limit and run airport expresses on each floor and accept over wifi i'm limited to 9MB/Sec - 11MB/Sec, loosing out on my 150Mbps broadband top speed.
thanks guys
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