Get the best performance out of my setup?

Itr1197

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Currently I have mutiple ethernet wall jacks all over the house that go down into the basement. Those wall jacks all feed into a gigaport switch. Also in my basment is a comcast telephony modem. My question is if I put my router in the basement the wifi signal will get weaker the further I get a away from it and so will the speed. How can I maintain the 50+mbps that I get when I'm 5 feet away from the router, throughout the entire house?

Currently I have 4 routers, a linksys e2000, an E1000 and 2 wrt54g2. E2000 is what I'm currently using, but it doesnt reach very far and the best speed I can get in it is about 30Mbps. I'm willing to upgrade my router in order reach every corner of my house withouty compromising the speed. Also an FYI I temporarily put in an Apple Airport Extreme and it was doing around 47-50Mbps, so I know I can obtain those speeds.

Thanks
 

postmortemIA

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so why not flash DD-WRT to wrt54gs. connect them via ethernet and use them as access points? granted, you'll get up to 25mbps but they can offload channels used by e2000.
 

Itr1197

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I tried putting the e2000 the basment and the connecting 2 of the wrt54gs to a port on the e2000. The problem is I was getting very slow wifi speeds of 5-7mbps when I was connected to the wrt54s. They have dd-wrt on them in order to put both in bridge mode.

What do you mean by offload channels?

Thanks
 

ch33zw1z

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Run a router in the basement, and disable the wifi. run two routers as AP's in the upper floor, on separate ends of the house.

Sounds like you have too much going on, simplify the solution.

Google "router as access point"
 

Itr1197

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Run a router in the basement, and disable the wifi. run two routers as AP's in the upper floor, on separate ends of the house.

Sounds like you have too much going on, simplify the solution.

Google "router as access point"

Ok now for me to get as close as I can to 50mbps through the air what kind of access points will I need? You are saying disable the wifi in the basement router. So I'm assuming I could just use the e2000 that I already have. Should my 2 access points be something like an Asus rt-n66u or linksys ea4500?
 

ch33zw1z

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50Mbps of actual throughput? You'll need wireless N 5Ghz in my experience. Don't forget to assign the same settings to both AP's, except you want them on different frequency ranges.
 

spidey07

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This. Make the routers into APs. Use the 5 Ghz band with 40 Mhz channels for maximum performance and try to place the APs as close as you can to te clients. Not too close though, more than 5 feet.

If you don't have 5 Ghz, then buy some routers/aps with it if you want maximum performance with multiple APs. 2.4 Ghz simply can't do it with multiple APs.

IT's really not difficult at all since your house is wired, just make one router be the router, and everything else is simply an access point (don't use WAN port on those and disable DHCP services).
 

postmortemIA

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I tried putting the e2000 the basment and the connecting 2 of the wrt54gs to a port on the e2000. The problem is I was getting very slow wifi speeds of 5-7mbps when I was connected to the wrt54s. They have dd-wrt on them in order to put both in bridge mode.

What do you mean by offload channels?

Thanks

This is the setup info for DD-WRT for AP (access point)
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Wireless_Access_Point
You do not want to use wireless bridge - 1/2 of bandwidth is wasted on router WiFi communication
Offload channels - I mean to use channels 1,6, and 11, which are only 3 channels that are not overlapping with others.