Advice for home network

[grey989]

I currently have a Netgear R7000 in my basement office which is where my cable modem is located. I have run a cat6 cable from my basement to my main floor (opposite side of the house) which I have connected to a TP-Link Archer C8.

The majority of my wireless devices are on the main floor and top floor (4 roku's, 4 ipads, iphones) and I have 1 roku and a smart TV in the basement.

My question is should I put the R7000 as my access point on the main floor? or should the C8 stay on the main floor. I would think the router that has higher performance for "routing" functions should be at my modem?

Thoughts or comments?

 

[degrub]

I currently have a Netgear R7000 in my basement office which is where my cable modem is located. I have run a cat6 cable from my basement to my main floor (opposite side of the house) which I have connected to a TP-Link Archer C8.

The majority of my wireless devices are on the main floor and top floor (4 roku's, 4 ipads, iphones) and I have 1 roku and a smart TV in the basement.

My question is should I put the R7000 as my access point on the main floor? or should the C8 stay on the main floor. I would think the router that has higher performance for "routing" functions should be at my modem?

Thoughts or comments?

Why ???

Are you noticing any bandwidth issues that are not related to effective distance (walls, distance, electrical appliances, etc) from the AP ?
If so, consider re-positioning the AP, changing the broadcast channel, or adding a second via another Cat 6 cable to the new location.

 

[sfx2000]

My question is should I put the R7000 as my access point on the main floor? or should the C8 stay on the main floor. I would think the router that has higher performance for "routing" functions should be at my modem?

The AP itself should be where the traffic is, so yes...

Doesn't have to be the R7000 if that is your primary router, maybe leave it where it is - there's a lot of affordable Router/AP's that can be converted, or find a dedicated AP and run a cable upstairs to it... Netgear had a handle little one that was under $100USD that is AP only, there was a mention a while back on the snbforums.com landing...