My condo unit has three levels: loft, main floor, and bedrooms below. Total area is just over 1000 square feet.
My small building (8 units) recently converted to Webpass with 1 Gbit fiber to our garage. This service uses ethernet over the existing in-wall wiring to get to the units. For my building, the wiring is CAT3. My unit was originally wired for two phone lines. Initially, I used one line for DSL and the other for a landline phone - remember those?
To maximize my bandwidth, I asked the Webpass installer to use both lines for my ethernet connection. The phone lines were daisy-chained from outlet to outlet. Initially, the connection was just stuffed into the phone jack box, but this caused some signal degradation. Two of the boxes were daisy-chained externally.
My ASUS AC68P currently lives on the top floor in my office. I get 940 Mbps up and down with this configuration. However, the 5 GHz signal is not dependable with some devices on the lower floors and the 2.4 GHz signal could be better on the bottom floor.
One possible improvement would be to wall-mount a wifi router on the main floor to reduce connection distances. Then connect the office equipment to a wired router as a sub-net off the wifi router. Does this make sense? Is there a better solution? I can live with the existing situation so a solution available in the near-future is acceptable.
TIA.
My small building (8 units) recently converted to Webpass with 1 Gbit fiber to our garage. This service uses ethernet over the existing in-wall wiring to get to the units. For my building, the wiring is CAT3. My unit was originally wired for two phone lines. Initially, I used one line for DSL and the other for a landline phone - remember those?
To maximize my bandwidth, I asked the Webpass installer to use both lines for my ethernet connection. The phone lines were daisy-chained from outlet to outlet. Initially, the connection was just stuffed into the phone jack box, but this caused some signal degradation. Two of the boxes were daisy-chained externally.
My ASUS AC68P currently lives on the top floor in my office. I get 940 Mbps up and down with this configuration. However, the 5 GHz signal is not dependable with some devices on the lower floors and the 2.4 GHz signal could be better on the bottom floor.
One possible improvement would be to wall-mount a wifi router on the main floor to reduce connection distances. Then connect the office equipment to a wired router as a sub-net off the wifi router. Does this make sense? Is there a better solution? I can live with the existing situation so a solution available in the near-future is acceptable.
TIA.
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