Sho'Nuff
Diamond Member
Hi All:
My wife and I have a three floor home - two floors above grade, and a basement below grade that we recently remodeled. When I move my current home office (which is upstairs) into the new space in the basement, my wireless router (airport extreme) will be relocated to the basement as well.
Based on the design of the home, I think that relocating the router to the basement will cause reception issues in the upper floors of our home. As a result, I had our contractor install an ethernet (cat6) run that has outlets in my new home office and in a centrally located closet on our first floor. A power outlet was installed in the closet as well. The idea is to install a second router or some other piece of equipment (repeater/access point?) in the closet, so as to boost the wireless signal to the upper floors of our home.
Questions -
1. What do you recommend as far as an access point/repeater for my application? I'm quite computer savvy, but I haven't spent enough time setting up networks to know what is good, and what is not.
2. If I add an access point, can I simply plug my existing router into the ethernet run in my office (which connects to the closet), and then plug the access point into the ethernet run in the closet? Or is something else required?
Thanks in advance.
My wife and I have a three floor home - two floors above grade, and a basement below grade that we recently remodeled. When I move my current home office (which is upstairs) into the new space in the basement, my wireless router (airport extreme) will be relocated to the basement as well.
Based on the design of the home, I think that relocating the router to the basement will cause reception issues in the upper floors of our home. As a result, I had our contractor install an ethernet (cat6) run that has outlets in my new home office and in a centrally located closet on our first floor. A power outlet was installed in the closet as well. The idea is to install a second router or some other piece of equipment (repeater/access point?) in the closet, so as to boost the wireless signal to the upper floors of our home.
Questions -
1. What do you recommend as far as an access point/repeater for my application? I'm quite computer savvy, but I haven't spent enough time setting up networks to know what is good, and what is not.
2. If I add an access point, can I simply plug my existing router into the ethernet run in my office (which connects to the closet), and then plug the access point into the ethernet run in the closet? Or is something else required?
Thanks in advance.
