Howdy folks,
New to the forum and learning a lot. I have a modest 2 story house and recently was forced to switch ISP and relocate the modem/router location to one end of the house (going from wireless ISP to cable). Now that we are all home full time, school/work online all the time, this is more critical and very little tolerance for less than great wifi connections.
So, I'm considering a few options. Current situation is TP-Link AC1750 at the end of the house.
This isn't working for the other bedrooms on the other side of the house even though the distance nor construction are not great. So bedrooms away from the router have bad connection and the device in the garage doesn't even see the network.
Future option 1 is rewire the cable to move the cable modem and router to central location on 1st floor. And replace the AC1750 with either TP-Link AX3000 or ASUS RT-AC86U or RT-AX86U if that'll help. I don't have any wifi6 devices, so the router upgrade is optional.
Future option 2 is same as 1, but also add some ethernet cables to upstairs to add some WAP, TP-Link AC1200 to be rock solid. In this situation, maybe keep the AC1750 if upgrading the router isn't necessary. This option is probably WAY overkill for the size of the house, but I have 600mb service via Comcast and don't want the wifi to the weak link. And cost isn't much more and running ethernet cables in the attic is easy, so I'm considering it.
I tried option 1 yesterday by connecting the cable modem and AX3000 router with long ethernet cable. That seemed to work fine. I also tried option 1.5 which was to add a single WAP at the middle of the ceiling on the 2nd floor. That also seemed to work OK.
New to the forum and learning a lot. I have a modest 2 story house and recently was forced to switch ISP and relocate the modem/router location to one end of the house (going from wireless ISP to cable). Now that we are all home full time, school/work online all the time, this is more critical and very little tolerance for less than great wifi connections.
So, I'm considering a few options. Current situation is TP-Link AC1750 at the end of the house.
This isn't working for the other bedrooms on the other side of the house even though the distance nor construction are not great. So bedrooms away from the router have bad connection and the device in the garage doesn't even see the network.
Future option 1 is rewire the cable to move the cable modem and router to central location on 1st floor. And replace the AC1750 with either TP-Link AX3000 or ASUS RT-AC86U or RT-AX86U if that'll help. I don't have any wifi6 devices, so the router upgrade is optional.
Future option 2 is same as 1, but also add some ethernet cables to upstairs to add some WAP, TP-Link AC1200 to be rock solid. In this situation, maybe keep the AC1750 if upgrading the router isn't necessary. This option is probably WAY overkill for the size of the house, but I have 600mb service via Comcast and don't want the wifi to the weak link. And cost isn't much more and running ethernet cables in the attic is easy, so I'm considering it.
I tried option 1 yesterday by connecting the cable modem and AX3000 router with long ethernet cable. That seemed to work fine. I also tried option 1.5 which was to add a single WAP at the middle of the ceiling on the 2nd floor. That also seemed to work OK.