Hey Everyone,
I've been tasked with restructuring the wireless network in my fraternity house sometime over the summer and I'm looking for some input on the best way to set it up. Currently we have a 50mbps connection from the ISP, and during the school year we have 50-60 guys living in the house. While I doubt there's ever that many people on the network at once, I'd guess everyone has at least two wireless devices they use regularly (laptop, 360, iPads, smartphones, etc.)
The house has four floors and a basement, all which require wireless access. There's dual-band routers on every floor in the house except the top right now (so Router0, Router1, Router2, Router3, each with a 2.4 and 5gHZ band) and for the past few months this setup has been extremely problematic. The house is very old, so I assume there's a lot of issues with signal blocking, but there's also times where I can't get online in the same room as one of the routers.
Are there any other options for setting up networks of this size? I've done a lot of research the past few days, but haven't found any solid answers. I was hoping I could set up one large network with signal boosters/repeaters, which would make it easier to manage bandwidth activity (like limiting P2P usage to guys hogging bandwidth, etc.)
Thanks,
Nate
I've been tasked with restructuring the wireless network in my fraternity house sometime over the summer and I'm looking for some input on the best way to set it up. Currently we have a 50mbps connection from the ISP, and during the school year we have 50-60 guys living in the house. While I doubt there's ever that many people on the network at once, I'd guess everyone has at least two wireless devices they use regularly (laptop, 360, iPads, smartphones, etc.)
The house has four floors and a basement, all which require wireless access. There's dual-band routers on every floor in the house except the top right now (so Router0, Router1, Router2, Router3, each with a 2.4 and 5gHZ band) and for the past few months this setup has been extremely problematic. The house is very old, so I assume there's a lot of issues with signal blocking, but there's also times where I can't get online in the same room as one of the routers.
Are there any other options for setting up networks of this size? I've done a lot of research the past few days, but haven't found any solid answers. I was hoping I could set up one large network with signal boosters/repeaters, which would make it easier to manage bandwidth activity (like limiting P2P usage to guys hogging bandwidth, etc.)
Thanks,
Nate
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