Silver5656
New Around Here
So I just bought a condo that was built in the early 80's, 10 stories, on the top floor. I am fairly certain the wifi with my ac68r will be very insufficient. The basic design is rectangular aprox 35x80 ft, 3 bedroom + den, 2500 sq feet. All 3 bedrooms are on the left, all in a row, with the den on the right. The den will be my computer/play room with my server, nas, main pc, and my main mac. For a while I've been thinking of setting up cat5e/cat6 but the quotes i've been getting have been 2k+ (for a single run with 5 dropdowns) and as high as 5k (for double runs with 6 dropdowns) so I think that route is not going to work for me.
So my question is, what should I do? I looked into moca and poe but it seems to me at least that there are lots of issues. Should I just get 2 routers and set one up as an AP? I've done this before at my girlfriends parents house (2 stories, 3500sq ft) and it works for their basic needs of internet access and some streaming on a 25mbps plan, but I have a 300/50 plan and I do often max out my speeds. Any help/advice/links would be great. I wish I could just pay the costs and get wired as that would be ideal as many of my devices would like the speed benefits.........but I just cant get myself to commit the money, especially with the other upgrades to the condo that are needed (who am I kidding, they're not really needed) =P
So my question is, what should I do? I looked into moca and poe but it seems to me at least that there are lots of issues. Should I just get 2 routers and set one up as an AP? I've done this before at my girlfriends parents house (2 stories, 3500sq ft) and it works for their basic needs of internet access and some streaming on a 25mbps plan, but I have a 300/50 plan and I do often max out my speeds. Any help/advice/links would be great. I wish I could just pay the costs and get wired as that would be ideal as many of my devices would like the speed benefits.........but I just cant get myself to commit the money, especially with the other upgrades to the condo that are needed (who am I kidding, they're not really needed) =P