Need Help, trying to hook up powerline adapters, modems, routers, and wifi extenders...

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From the title you can see I'm trying to use a lot of devices to make a solid home network over two households...

I would like to have two houses, right behind each other, about 200ft apart running on the same network.

Devices I own...

PowerLine adapters (3 right now)
TRENDnet Powerline AV600 Adapter Kit with Gigabit Port, TPL-408E2K
TRENDnet Powerline AV600 Adapter with Gigabit Port, TPL-408E

Modem/ISP
CISCO cable modem through cox, get 125 mbps down here and there

New wifi router
ASUS (RT-AC68U) Wireless-AC1900 Dual-Band Gigabit Router
Asus WL-ANT-157 Antenna

Old wifi router
N750 DB Wireless Dual-Band N+ Router

Wireless Range Extender (2 of them)
(Belkin - F9K1106 - Dual-Band Wireless Range Extender


Having problems getting good wifi throughout the whole house and using wifi extenders to try and get a solid signal to the house 200 ft behind me.

Right now, the modem and asus wireless router are on the wrong side of my house, so I was using 2 wifi extenders to get the signal over to the other house. This has been very spotty. The new asus router has great range, and if I could locate it to the back of my house, I could loose one of the wifi extenders. Which of course would improve speed and signal consistency at other house. Relocating the router would also pretty much solve the wifi reception problems I have been having in my house as well.

My solution has been to order the trendnet powerline adapter so I could relocate the new asus router to the other side of my house. In my house, I would like to get that 100 mbps on wifi and wired I have been getting when signal is good. I know it won't always be that, but it would be nice. As long as I'm getting around a solid 10 to 15 mbps on the house behind me I'd be good. I would also like to buy more powerline adapters to have wired connections for a stable signal when streaming my ps4 games to my pstv. how should i set this up????

My thoughts were to set up like this

Modem
> Belkin N750 DB router (disable wireless signal if possible)
> Powerline AV600
> Powerline AV600 > ASUS (RT-AC68U) > Belkin Wire Rng Ext (at other house behind me)
> Powerline AV600 > PS4
> Powerline AV600 > PSTV


I figured I needed the old wifi router so I could have multiple powerline adapters hooked up. Figured I would have IP address problems if I didn't. Is that correct? Or do the powerline adapters act as a router? I am definitely a rookie when it comes to networking. Would love any help I could get from the cominity on settings and things like that. Or if there would be a better way to do this setup.

Sorry for the length, it just seemed hard to explain, thanks in advance.


 
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Now that I think about it, this would be just fine for your needs, its similarto the bullet but with built in panel type antenna.
http://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-LOCOM2-US-NanoStation-loco-M2/dp/B004EGI3CI/ref=pd_cp_pc_1

A PoE injetor just has ethernet in, power in, and then both the data and the power goes through the ethernet out port.
Ubiquiti has good support for their configuration gui, ive only setup a couple but it was pretty straight forward, you would just set it as a bridge and select your ssid and input your wifi password.

You would then need to run ethernet or use powerline to the router in the other house, and that will have to be setup as an access point.

Some routers have a built in access point mode.
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You are flat out not going to get good bandwidth/coverage with range extenders.
Range extender has to split its bandwidth between talking to primary router and talking to client devices. Then all residential grade repeaters are cheap low powered junk.

For the house 200ft away you should look at mounting a ubiquiti bullet and grid antenna on the outside of that house. You can get a PoE adpater (Power being sent over the ethernet wire) and then get etherernet to an access point via powerline adater.

So:
Modem
Main Router
Powerline adapter
asus router as access point

Ubiquiti bullet with PoE apapter
powerline adapter
router set as access point
devices
 
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Thank you very much for your help. Not familiar with Ubiquiti bullet with ,PoE apapters, or what I'd have to buy. Do you happen to know of any links explaining how to do this and what is needed?? Thanks again for your help.
 
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Now that I think about it, this would be just fine for your needs, its similarto the bullet but with built in panel type antenna.
http://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-LOCOM2-US-NanoStation-loco-M2/dp/B004EGI3CI/ref=pd_cp_pc_1

A PoE injetor just has ethernet in, power in, and then both the data and the power goes through the ethernet out port.
Ubiquiti has good support for their configuration gui, ive only setup a couple but it was pretty straight forward, you would just set it as a bridge and select your ssid and input your wifi password.

You would then need to run ethernet or use powerline to the router in the other house, and that will have to be setup as an access point.

Some routers have a built in access point mode.
The just of switching a router to an access point:
You weill need to know the ip address, subnet and dhcp range of your primary router.
So lets say the IP is 192.168.1.1, subnet of 255.255.255.0, and DHCP server range is 192.168.1.100-254. So on your access point you would want to set its ip to NOT be in the dhcp server range, so in my example use 192.168.1.2. You will then set the gateway and dns ip address to be that of the primary router, and use the same subnet settings as primary router. You then dissable dhcp server and plug the ethernet cable from primary router into a LAN port of the now access point.

The point of an access point is to be an extension of your network and thus creating one large network, while just plugging it into the WAN port and using normal configuraiton would make it an issolated network.
 
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so are you saying one of the Ubiquiti NanoStation loco M2 at the my house and the other outside at the other house. They send the signal between the two locations. Then use a powerline adapter to get the signal inside the other house, then hook up an router to it to set up wired and wifi in that house? Not that concerned about having it be one network, just that I get my parents decent internet access in their house.
 
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very good line of site....a couple of trees, but nothing major.
 
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