Wireless issues, considering a Ubiquiti system

[Mushkins]

Wow, this thread exploded quick. Overthinking what is a simple solution unless the OP lives directly under a radio tower or has a dozen microwaves in his house.

Buy two of any brand of decent wireless AP, run two network cables to ideal locations in your home for coverage and mount them. Disable built-in wireless on the router. Plug APs into router, call it a day.

APs/Routers advertise max range under ideal lab-created circumstances: aka they lie.
Devices try to display a complex measurement in a graphic of five little bars: aka they lie.

You can fix this for less than $200 and an afternoon of housework.

 

[cytoSiN]

Wow, this thread exploded quick. Overthinking what is a simple solution unless the OP lives directly under a radio tower or has a dozen microwaves in his house.

Buy two of any brand of decent wireless AP, run two network cables to ideal locations in your home for coverage and mount them. Disable built-in wireless on the router. Plug APs into router, call it a day.

APs/Routers advertise max range under ideal lab-created circumstances: aka they lie.
Devices try to display a complex measurement in a graphic of five little bars: aka they lie.

You can fix this for less than $200 and an afternoon of housework.

Assuming you were upgrading from a Netgear WNDR3700v2, what router would you start with? And what wired access points would you use?

 

[boomhower]

Wow, this thread exploded quick. Overthinking what is a simple solution unless the OP lives directly under a radio tower or has a dozen microwaves in his house.

Buy two of any brand of decent wireless AP, run two network cables to ideal locations in your home for coverage and mount them. Disable built-in wireless on the router. Plug APs into router, call it a day.

APs/Routers advertise max range under ideal lab-created circumstances: aka they lie.
Devices try to display a complex measurement in a graphic of five little bars: aka they lie.

You can fix this for less than $200 and an afternoon of housework.

More of less what I am going to do. Haven't decided between one or two AP's as ZHO doesn't have high reliability in the AP's I have been looking at. Given the relatively small size of my house at 1500 a centrally mounted AP will likely be fine.

I am still going to hardwire the kids rooms, should have done this a long time ago. They will get better performance and the wifi in general will have a lot of data moved off of it. Should make the whole network better.