Configuring Wireless Network with multiple repeaters/extenders

bigbadger · Oct 2, 2015

Looking for some suggestions about the best way to configure a Home Network in a very large house.

A friend has just installed Fibre and already had three hard wired wireless routers around the house on different floors and areas. Performance at the router is fine - but its located in an integral garage! So performance close to that area is good (Download Speed is about 80Mb) but thereafter relatively quite bad. When I tested the speed in other parts of the house download was about 3mb and upload about 18mb. Yes I have never seen speeds that way round!!

Before I start changing the network configuration I would like to know what is the best way to configure the network. As repeaters, access points, multiple zones or single zone network. The usage on the network is mainly normal computing with One IPTV box, One ISP (movistar - Spain) provided TV system and one system to get UK TV.

Your suggestions are greatly appreciated.

kanewolf · Oct 2, 2015

If you have ethernet cable available to multiple areas of the house, then multiple access points is the preferred method. The Unifi line from Ubiquiti are inexpensive and intended to work as a set. You would wire them all back to a central switch with then uplinked to the router.

bigbadger · Oct 3, 2015

Forgot to mention one of the three hard wired remote routers has three devices connected also via Ethernet cables so the Unifi solution would not work for that particular router. You also suggested connecting the three routers back to a switch then uplinked to the router. Is there an issue connecting the three remote routers directly to the Fibre optic router which has 4 ethernet ports - so I could then do without the switch? Would you consider the 3 existing remote routers are limiting the WIFI signal -one at least is a "n" router but testing the bandwidth I get a very low speed bearing in mind the 80MB at the fibre optic router? What speed should I be getting from the remote routers using a wireless connection? Thx

kanewolf · Oct 3, 2015

There is no issue connecting directly back to a router with multiple LAN ports. It just sounded like the complexity of the network would exceed the capacity of a router. If you get a switch, then there is room to expand.

bigbadger · Oct 3, 2015

Thanks - the main router has no additional capacity so that would be the next step. I was just wondering whether that was a better config rather than having them connected directly to the main router. At this point think I can manage without the switch - just!

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