We moved have been having WiFi troubles ever since moving to a house with thick walls and three storeys. Currently using an ASUs ac87u which is great apart from WiFi coverage. I’m not much of an expert on networks….
We have virgin wired into our basement which is where cat 6 cables for each room also terminate (sadly only one cable per room). Router in a basement is obviously poor for WiFi. I’ve tried it in various rooms and can’t get good coverage everywhere.
Looking at upgrades to improve wifi whilst ideally enabling me to use the cat 6 ports in each room for things like consoles/Apple TV’s etc and access points. Also interested in putting the cctv etc on a separate VLAN (I think)
My options seems to be:
1) Place the ASUS in the basement, add a switch and then add access points for WiFi in a couple of rooms.
2) Get a managed switch to connect all the Ethernet ports, pass the WAN over a VLAN to another room which would have the router and I could then add access points to improve coverage.
In both cases I’m looking at ubiquiti access points. The debate seems to be whether to buy a ubiquiti router (UDM?)and managed switch or go with a basic switch and keep the ASUS router (assuming it’s able to do the VLAN wan thing)
Am I missing any other options / totally misunderstood this?
We have virgin wired into our basement which is where cat 6 cables for each room also terminate (sadly only one cable per room). Router in a basement is obviously poor for WiFi. I’ve tried it in various rooms and can’t get good coverage everywhere.
Looking at upgrades to improve wifi whilst ideally enabling me to use the cat 6 ports in each room for things like consoles/Apple TV’s etc and access points. Also interested in putting the cctv etc on a separate VLAN (I think)
My options seems to be:
1) Place the ASUS in the basement, add a switch and then add access points for WiFi in a couple of rooms.
2) Get a managed switch to connect all the Ethernet ports, pass the WAN over a VLAN to another room which would have the router and I could then add access points to improve coverage.
In both cases I’m looking at ubiquiti access points. The debate seems to be whether to buy a ubiquiti router (UDM?)and managed switch or go with a basic switch and keep the ASUS router (assuming it’s able to do the VLAN wan thing)
Am I missing any other options / totally misunderstood this?
