Coverage of WiFi in an apartment

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Yancho

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Guys would you think this set up will work for this apartment please? Dimensions are written in purple (image is not drawn to scale). The length of the apartment in total is 33meters

Rooms marked in blue need to be covered by WiFi. Red labelled rooms need not. I have prepared a wall plug in each room just in case, but will be not terminated until the bedrooms will become populated and the need for a plugged in device emerges. Will use Cat 5E as regards to cabling (light blue lines)

In case there are any areas / rooms which fall in a dead spot, which Extender would you recommend? The most important thing is that there is a seamless roaming!

The walls are made of Limestone (very porous) stone.

Thanks for your time and support :)
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bill001g

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You just plug in more ubiquity UAP ....one in every room if it is really bad. Big advantage of ubiquity is you can use their free central management software to make it easier to run more than 1 device.

Your design is as good as you can get, you just have to see how well it works which is unpredictable when you have very thick walls.
 
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Yancho

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Thanks bill001g however I'd like to be a bit future proof and keep to the 100 EUR total price range for WiFi. Another requirement is that the AP in the Main Bedroom will be ceiling mounted to look nice.

What other suggestions would one have please? Such as will a TP-Link set up using EAp120 instead of the UAP work and then one can plug other cheap APs where need is and still have seamless roaming? My main requirement is this: seamless roaming between APs.

Thanks
 
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bill001g

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You will never get seamless roaming without a special client loaded. It is the end device that controls the roaming and they are stupid. They pretty much stay connected to whatever signal they have until they pretty much lose the signal. Only then do they look for another signal.

The ubiquti controller has some abilities to make the AP run a little faster but it is unclear how much effect it has. I have seen discussion that is forces a deassociate but it is hard to say how quickly the end device will detect and connect to the other device. It is still better than nothing you get with home devices.

The only ones that are truly seamless...you still may lose a packet or two are things like cisco solution. They require you to load a software client on every device so that tends to be a pain. Last time I used that system you actually had to pay a fee for each client device you had.
 
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Yancho

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thanks bill001g - considering the things what would you suggest then? For sure the AP which needs to replace the UAP has to be a ceiling mount and quite decent looking, thus no external antennae.

Budget to cover WiFi around is around 100USD ish
 
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