I have had challenges getting adequate coverage throughout a 4-story house, so in my attempts to get adequate coverage I have built a rather complicated system.
I currently have a Netgear genie CM1150v receiving 1 gig comcast service (usually between 850 and 1100 Mbps with 40Mbps up) with an Asus RT-AC5300 router with two Access Point connected routers (Asus RT-AC66U and RT-AC1200 ). The APs are connected via two Actiontec MoCA Coax adapters. The speeds of the MoCa connections are 1 gig and 400 Mbps (likely due to at least one splitter in line). The AC5300 is on the top floor the AC66U on the 2nd floor and the AC1900 on the 1st floor. At any given time I have around 36 clients connected, a mixture of computers, printers, phones, ipads, door locks, garage doors, cameras, TVs, streaming devices, speakers, etc. The APs give me fairly seamless switching with phones and laptops as I used consistent SSID naming across the devices.
Currently I have decent coverage, but the system is unnecessarily complicated and if I am not at home getting the it back up after a power failure or service interruptions is sometime problematic.
I am considering purchase of the Asus ZenWiFi Ax (XT8) to replace this rather complicated setup. Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks,
I currently have a Netgear genie CM1150v receiving 1 gig comcast service (usually between 850 and 1100 Mbps with 40Mbps up) with an Asus RT-AC5300 router with two Access Point connected routers (Asus RT-AC66U and RT-AC1200 ). The APs are connected via two Actiontec MoCA Coax adapters. The speeds of the MoCa connections are 1 gig and 400 Mbps (likely due to at least one splitter in line). The AC5300 is on the top floor the AC66U on the 2nd floor and the AC1900 on the 1st floor. At any given time I have around 36 clients connected, a mixture of computers, printers, phones, ipads, door locks, garage doors, cameras, TVs, streaming devices, speakers, etc. The APs give me fairly seamless switching with phones and laptops as I used consistent SSID naming across the devices.
Currently I have decent coverage, but the system is unnecessarily complicated and if I am not at home getting the it back up after a power failure or service interruptions is sometime problematic.
I am considering purchase of the Asus ZenWiFi Ax (XT8) to replace this rather complicated setup. Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks,