Help me improve the situation at my girlfriends house... She lives in the city so there are many competing networks so the quality of her wi-fi signal is pretty crappy. Most nights we cant stream anything on her Apple TV without frequent stops.
Verizon FIOS 50/50 connection - not that this is the issue. The wired bandwidth is great
I got her the Archer C7 router to try the 5Ghz
She has a Netgear Network extender Upstairs.
Over the weekend I also installed a TL-WPA4220NET Powerline Extender
The house:
3 Stories...
Basement: has an Apple TV Currently connected via 5Ghz... Working fine.
First Floor: the Router is in the kitchen which is pretty much in the center of the house
Second Floor: Bedrooms, master bedroom (where we usually have streaming issues)
I setup the powerline network to extend a connection into the master bedroom and hard wired into the Apple TV. We watched about 30 minutes of Netflix without any hiccups. I think the powerline might be a success.
I would still like to optimize the wireless performance so some questions:
- Does it make sense to manually set the channel on all the devices to ones that are less crowded?
- Does it make sense to set the same SSID on all the devices? This is currently the case for the 2.4Ghz router, and power line network extender. However the Netgear has a different SSID that I have not messed with yet.
Thanks in advance!
Verizon FIOS 50/50 connection - not that this is the issue. The wired bandwidth is great
I got her the Archer C7 router to try the 5Ghz
She has a Netgear Network extender Upstairs.
Over the weekend I also installed a TL-WPA4220NET Powerline Extender
The house:
3 Stories...
Basement: has an Apple TV Currently connected via 5Ghz... Working fine.
First Floor: the Router is in the kitchen which is pretty much in the center of the house
Second Floor: Bedrooms, master bedroom (where we usually have streaming issues)
I setup the powerline network to extend a connection into the master bedroom and hard wired into the Apple TV. We watched about 30 minutes of Netflix without any hiccups. I think the powerline might be a success.
I would still like to optimize the wireless performance so some questions:
- Does it make sense to manually set the channel on all the devices to ones that are less crowded?
- Does it make sense to set the same SSID on all the devices? This is currently the case for the 2.4Ghz router, and power line network extender. However the Netgear has a different SSID that I have not messed with yet.
Thanks in advance!