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    Best Router for Smarthome/Sonos/homekit

    i live in a modest split level house 1800sq ft + basement. currently have an r7000, located in the basement that gives alright coverage but excellent coverage to the ATV4k thats about 10ft away and gives good performace to local media from plex server which is hardwired to the r7000 as well as...
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    Building a mesh network with 2 routers

    Yes my terminology may be incorrect. Adding an AP is what I want to do. that article answered my question on SSID naming as well. I'll have two static location devices but everything else is a phone or tablet so I think I will use separate names but perhaps ios and android are better in that...
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    Building a mesh network with 2 routers

    Not sure if it's possible but I want to add a 2nd wifi router to increase my range (mainly 5ghz, 2.4 isn't bad)... Current my Inet runs into a wdr3700 that serves the whole house. I run cat6 from it to a switch in network room In the far east end of my house which runs cat6 to my main file...
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    Topology question?

    Thanks for the replies. Unfortunately it's an older house and finished so to install wires would be a pain. I may be able to get a wire from the wdr3700 to the server as its only paneling but the house is a split level that makes for 4 effective half floors. With 1 and 3 on one side and 2 and...
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    Topology question?

    I recently moved and am contemplating a multi-router setup to avoid running wires in the new home and I am not sure how I should go. Right now I have a cable modem and wdr3700v1 serving inet everywhere. The cable guy basically installed the modem in the laundry room which does no one any...
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    Bridging or WDS for my topology

    The house's internal phone wiring is messed up somewhere so i can only connect the dsl modem at the demarc jack which is why its in the garage. ive got about 10 jacks daisy chained with older 4 pair wiring and going around checking each one is not high on my priority list, especially as it...
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    Bridging or WDS for my topology

    I just bought a wndr3700 and want to introduce it to my network for its wired routing for now but it will eventually be my only router. internet -- wrt54gl (()) wndr3700 --- pc, htpc, xbox -- wired (()) wireless problem is my current router is in my garage with dsl directly at dmarc so...
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