Gents, ladies (?), oh and gender fluid (did I say that right),
I was hoping to pick some of "yawls" brain. I have a partially cabled (cat7) 3000 SQ Ft newish construction house (7 years). My house consists of 2 adults, 1 should be adult, 2 teens, and the twin terrors (7 and 7) year olds. It is a burgeoning smart home, with smart lights either in place or purchased for the whole house. Cameras, Thermostats, Dorbellls, motion sensors, water sensors, power adapters etc. Either purchased or installed.
Just wanted to add a thank you to anyone who actually takes the time to read and reply. I am FNG and this is a log freaking post. Hopefully I will have some knowledge to help someone else out in the fututre.
Additional equipment 2 NAS's (WD Cloud), a Facebook smart device, 6 Chromecast ultra's, a couple of google and amazon smart devices (the echos and google max rarely used), smartthings v3 hub, Intel Ivy i5 dedicated media server (2.5 GB connection), 3 Gaming PC's Ryzen 3900x, with Radeon 5700 Xt's, ( ryzen 5 6600xt), a ryzen 5 (3080), 2 XBOX One, 1 Nintendo switch and if I can ever buy 1 a PS5. Phones 2x S21 Ultra, Samsung Note 10, One PLus 7t, 3 iPhone 11 Max, Ipad Mini, Samsun Tab S7, a few Chromebooks, and 3 laptops. Looking at my router we use between 50 GB-120 GB a day.
My current setup consists of 1GB Spectrum modem to Asus AX11000 (running Merlin). I use a 2.5 GB connection from AX11000 (living room) to my personal gaming/workstation in my study. Back in the Ax 11000, I bind/bond the 1st 2 ports to create 1 logical, 2 GB interface that connects to a 16 Port Netgear switch where I also bind 2 interfaces together for the connection.
The Next AX11000 connection is a GB shot back to an Asus GT 5300 (running Kool share) mesh node,
The next AX11000 Connection is a GB Shot back to the Master Bedroom. Where it connects to a AX92u
My last backhaul connection is using a dedicated 5 GHZ band to an AX92U.
Summarry of infrastucure connections
Modem 1GB capability to 1 GB Asus AX11000
BackHaul to Masterbedroom 1 GB from ASUS AX11000 to ASUS AX92
BackHaul to Study 1 GB from ASUS AX11000 to ASUS GT 53000 (Kool Share)
Dedicated 5GHZ band to wireless AX92U
I do have 1 Cat 7 connection in an upstairs bedroom not being used. I could add another and bind the connection and add it to the Netgear. The bedroom is not centrally located and it may need i need a switch there then extend out of room for wireless.
I have a lot of unused network equipment such as ASUS AX92, Netgear AD7200, r7000 (koolshare), various pro safe, cisco, juniper, and brocade (sp?)devices. I GT53000 that i put open wrt on and it boots up and I csn log in, but i dint even see where to add the SSID, i gave up in 2 seconds in it, though it will be revisited.
I have added some very crude drawings that are a tad embarrassing, take it easy on me fellas.
Would I be better off with multiple AP's? I never understood how to make the devices change from AP to AP based on strength. If I do should they be the same or sperate SSID's?
The crux of the problem is upstairs users complain of lag while gaming, not negotiating to 4k at all times, and poor media center performance. ALl of us experiences random drops and performance issues
my washer, dryer, cams, moisture sensors in the garage and beyond disconnect alot
my laptop to modem damn near line speed.
modem to AX11000 to Laptop via cat 7 500GB
I have not tried the modem, to pro-safe to the laptop. I just dug it out to move things off wireless as much as possible
I was hoping to pick some of "yawls" brain. I have a partially cabled (cat7) 3000 SQ Ft newish construction house (7 years). My house consists of 2 adults, 1 should be adult, 2 teens, and the twin terrors (7 and 7) year olds. It is a burgeoning smart home, with smart lights either in place or purchased for the whole house. Cameras, Thermostats, Dorbellls, motion sensors, water sensors, power adapters etc. Either purchased or installed.
Just wanted to add a thank you to anyone who actually takes the time to read and reply. I am FNG and this is a log freaking post. Hopefully I will have some knowledge to help someone else out in the fututre.
Additional equipment 2 NAS's (WD Cloud), a Facebook smart device, 6 Chromecast ultra's, a couple of google and amazon smart devices (the echos and google max rarely used), smartthings v3 hub, Intel Ivy i5 dedicated media server (2.5 GB connection), 3 Gaming PC's Ryzen 3900x, with Radeon 5700 Xt's, ( ryzen 5 6600xt), a ryzen 5 (3080), 2 XBOX One, 1 Nintendo switch and if I can ever buy 1 a PS5. Phones 2x S21 Ultra, Samsung Note 10, One PLus 7t, 3 iPhone 11 Max, Ipad Mini, Samsun Tab S7, a few Chromebooks, and 3 laptops. Looking at my router we use between 50 GB-120 GB a day.
My current setup consists of 1GB Spectrum modem to Asus AX11000 (running Merlin). I use a 2.5 GB connection from AX11000 (living room) to my personal gaming/workstation in my study. Back in the Ax 11000, I bind/bond the 1st 2 ports to create 1 logical, 2 GB interface that connects to a 16 Port Netgear switch where I also bind 2 interfaces together for the connection.
The Next AX11000 connection is a GB shot back to an Asus GT 5300 (running Kool share) mesh node,
The next AX11000 Connection is a GB Shot back to the Master Bedroom. Where it connects to a AX92u
My last backhaul connection is using a dedicated 5 GHZ band to an AX92U.
Summarry of infrastucure connections
Modem 1GB capability to 1 GB Asus AX11000
BackHaul to Masterbedroom 1 GB from ASUS AX11000 to ASUS AX92
BackHaul to Study 1 GB from ASUS AX11000 to ASUS GT 53000 (Kool Share)
Dedicated 5GHZ band to wireless AX92U
I do have 1 Cat 7 connection in an upstairs bedroom not being used. I could add another and bind the connection and add it to the Netgear. The bedroom is not centrally located and it may need i need a switch there then extend out of room for wireless.
I have a lot of unused network equipment such as ASUS AX92, Netgear AD7200, r7000 (koolshare), various pro safe, cisco, juniper, and brocade (sp?)devices. I GT53000 that i put open wrt on and it boots up and I csn log in, but i dint even see where to add the SSID, i gave up in 2 seconds in it, though it will be revisited.
I have added some very crude drawings that are a tad embarrassing, take it easy on me fellas.
Would I be better off with multiple AP's? I never understood how to make the devices change from AP to AP based on strength. If I do should they be the same or sperate SSID's?
The crux of the problem is upstairs users complain of lag while gaming, not negotiating to 4k at all times, and poor media center performance. ALl of us experiences random drops and performance issues
my washer, dryer, cams, moisture sensors in the garage and beyond disconnect alot
my laptop to modem damn near line speed.
modem to AX11000 to Laptop via cat 7 500GB
I have not tried the modem, to pro-safe to the laptop. I just dug it out to move things off wireless as much as possible