Hard wired AP for 2nd floor , are these any good ?

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I wired my house with Cat5, I have two ethernet cables per room , one on each side of every room...I planned ahead . Anyway, the wireless on ipad, roku and wireless devices is not the greatest upstairs being that the modem and router are 2 stories down in the basement. I want to connect a WIRED access point to one of these unused centrally located ethernet cables upstairs, mobile devices used upstairs would be max 15 ft away thru sheetrock . There seems to be a ton of them available on amazon. I am looking at two and would like any input on these , or any others that are first and foremost, RELIABLE. I'm not downloading or transferring movies across my own network or internet . (I do not want to do a wireless to wireless repeater/range extender)

From reading, it seems the Ubiquiti is going to be more reliable
TP-LINK Access Point N300 , $25 cheapLink: http://a.co/hrJxZYV
Ubiquiti Unifi Ap-AC Lite http://a.co/19uk60Z

I'm also looking to replace my 8 port switch with this 16 port, reviews seem good , any thoughts on this one ? TRENDnet TEG-S16DG http://a.co/bFdTiTU

Thanks much !

 
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To simplify your installation, I would get a switch that has some POE compatible ports. That way no power is required for your AP. Since you don't have a ceiling mount location, I would probably get a router to use as an AP. A router is intended to sit on a table. The Ubiquiti is a good product, but is best suited for a ceiling mount. For about the same price as the Ubiquiti, you can get an Asus RT-AC68U router and use it as an access point.
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To simplify your installation, I would get a switch that has some POE compatible ports. That way no power is required for your AP. Since you don't have a ceiling mount location, I would probably get a router to use as an AP. A router is intended to sit on a table. The Ubiquiti is a good product, but is best suited for a ceiling mount. For about the same price as the Ubiquiti, you can get an Asus RT-AC68U router and use it as an access point.
 
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I've got a couple Linksys routers , WRT54g , old routers with removable antennas. I put DD-Wrt on one of them .
I searched a few vids on what you describe. Thanks for the heads up . This seems like the simplest way. I will use one of my old WRT54G Linksys routers on the ethernet cable upstairs , configure it as an access point and I should be golden. Thanks much !
 
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I wouldn't recommend using a a WRT54G for anything, any more. Wireless "G" is so limiting, especially for video streaming. They were good devices 10 years ago, but they are not worth it any more. The world has progressed. Get a dual band N or AC device for an access point.
 
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haha yeah ...i'm behind the times. The guy above suggested an Asus RT-AC68U router , but that's a $150 router where I just need a basic and reliable solution . Up til about 2 yrs ago I was using the WRT54G v4.0 with a commercial flat panel antenna aiming up into the house. We got comcast now and their modem router has built in wifi , it's not to great though . I got much better wifi off the WRT54G . Have to do some browsing to see what decent out there now and allows external antennas . I have a few D-Link ANT24-0700 that performed well over stock antennas . They're just sitting in a box now .
 
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