Hi All,
I have a large (at least according to my router brand support) 2.4G WiFi network (40-ish clients) spread over a medium size (200 m^2) house (with some thick walls).
Wifi network is provided by Synology 2600AC router plus 2 MR2200AC router in mesh setup: backhaul connection is using 1Gbit ethernet line.
I ran a Netspot site survey except having a not great signal-to-interference level (which I believe is due to the number of clients?) all seems fine.
Survey available here
Now issue I have is my 2.4G network is not really stable, according to Synology support this is due to some devices (5) with poor signal quality.
Synology is reporting a rate from 0 to 100 and these 5 clients have a link quality of 23-26-26-32-30: they are all IoT device (SolarEdge solar inverter, 3 Lifx bulbs, 1 shelly switch) for which I expect a low level of traffic.
Now I can boost the signal of 3 of them (plus other 2 not included in the 5 above with a link quality of 36-38) by adding a wifi repeater, but I am unsure this is the right thing to do: can anyone share suggestion or suggest a way to assess which is the best setup? (with or without wifi repeater).
I can use Wireshark although not being really expert in analyzing data, so suggestion is welcome.
On the other hand I am not sure if issue is with my current gear as, although poor level of connection, I would expect that, given the low number of clients and relatively low traffic, I shouldn't experience issue. I considered different times to entirely move to Ubiquiti Unifi gear, so also suggestion in this respect would be appreciated!
I have a large (at least according to my router brand support) 2.4G WiFi network (40-ish clients) spread over a medium size (200 m^2) house (with some thick walls).
Wifi network is provided by Synology 2600AC router plus 2 MR2200AC router in mesh setup: backhaul connection is using 1Gbit ethernet line.
I ran a Netspot site survey except having a not great signal-to-interference level (which I believe is due to the number of clients?) all seems fine.
Survey available here
Now issue I have is my 2.4G network is not really stable, according to Synology support this is due to some devices (5) with poor signal quality.
Synology is reporting a rate from 0 to 100 and these 5 clients have a link quality of 23-26-26-32-30: they are all IoT device (SolarEdge solar inverter, 3 Lifx bulbs, 1 shelly switch) for which I expect a low level of traffic.
Now I can boost the signal of 3 of them (plus other 2 not included in the 5 above with a link quality of 36-38) by adding a wifi repeater, but I am unsure this is the right thing to do: can anyone share suggestion or suggest a way to assess which is the best setup? (with or without wifi repeater).
I can use Wireshark although not being really expert in analyzing data, so suggestion is welcome.
On the other hand I am not sure if issue is with my current gear as, although poor level of connection, I would expect that, given the low number of clients and relatively low traffic, I shouldn't experience issue. I considered different times to entirely move to Ubiquiti Unifi gear, so also suggestion in this respect would be appreciated!