Question Intermittent / Slow WIFI

[Rachitoman]

We have recently shifted house and installed network in the house. The layout of the house and the network hardware is as follows

1. The house is 3 stories Ground, Ground +1, Ground +2.
2. The main DSL cable runs to the Ground +1 bedroom where a Huawei Echolife HG8245 GPON Terminal is connected (Network named as M) .
3. From this terminal on lan cable runs to Ground floor and connected to DLink router DIR 615. ( Network named as MGF).
4. One lan cable goes from floor Ground + 1 to Floor Ground + 2 and connected to a wifi extender.( Network named as M2F)

Now I am facing the following problems

1. When in bedroom on Ground +1 the phones, Ipad will prefer to connect to the networks MGF or M2F instead of network M which is the closest.
2. The network on the Ground floor the signal is intermittent at times and very slow.

What steps would you all recommend to make the network environment better.

TIA

 

[SamirD]

Well, you've done what you can with what you have. Devices are not very smart at connecting, so you have to manually tell them where to connect--they will never know what is actually strongest/fastest.

If the ground floor huawei unit's wifi is the issue, one thing you can do is disable the wifi on the unit and wire a better access point there. That should solve the connection issues on the ground floor.

Because you have a wired backbone, your setup is perfect for a ubiquiti installation that will allow just one ssid as well as much better speeds. However, if your Internet speeds do not exceed 100Mbps, this system would likely be overkill.

 

[Rachitoman]

Well, you've done what you can with what you have. Devices are not very smart at connecting, so you have to manually tell them where to connect--they will never know what is actually strongest/fastest.

If the ground floor huawei unit's wifi is the issue, one thing you can do is disable the wifi on the unit and wire a better access point there. That should solve the connection issues on the ground floor.

Because you have a wired backbone, your setup is perfect for a ubiquiti installation that will allow just one ssid as well as much better speeds. However, if your Internet speeds do not exceed 100Mbps, this system would likely be overkill.

Thanks Samir. The D Link is on the ground is the problem, but i get your point. Many thanks for answering.

 

[SamirD]

Oops! I got them mixed up, but I think you understood the concept. You might even be able to swap the d link and the extender and improve signal.

 

[Rachitoman]

So I took help from another friend. Changed the Network name to the same for all the routers and used different channels for each router. Been working fine so far. Will see in the long run