Hi,
I've been having some unreliability with my internal Wifi and was thinking of giving it a bit of a refresher (or config change). Below is my setup at present:
Office:
Sky ADSL Modem/Router (802.11n) Wireless channel 11 SSID abc
Netgear Gigabit Switch
Lounge:
Netgear Gigabit Switch (connected to office)
Linksys Router (setup as Wireless AP, 802.11n) Wireless channel 1, SSID abc
The idea behind the current setup is so that devices could roam between the 2 wireless points dependant on signal. This works ok, but is a bit slow to switch over (i.e. it will linger on weak signal for ages before using the other WAP with better signal).
The wireless signal given from the Sky router is not very good. And the Linksys tends to crash a bit meaning I have to reboot it.
I'm tempted to pickup 2 new gigabit wireless routers, 1 to plug into the Sky hub set to modem only so the Wifi router is a router, and the 2nd to act as just an access point. But I want to see if this is the best way to do it, or if anyone has a better suggestion? I don't want to replace the Sky router completely as I'll likely be moving over to fttx at somepoint in the not do distant future - so buying an ADSL2 modem would be a bit of a waste.
In terms of my requrements, I'd say I'm 70:30 for coverage:speed.
Thanks
I've been having some unreliability with my internal Wifi and was thinking of giving it a bit of a refresher (or config change). Below is my setup at present:
Office:
Sky ADSL Modem/Router (802.11n) Wireless channel 11 SSID abc
Netgear Gigabit Switch
Lounge:
Netgear Gigabit Switch (connected to office)
Linksys Router (setup as Wireless AP, 802.11n) Wireless channel 1, SSID abc
The idea behind the current setup is so that devices could roam between the 2 wireless points dependant on signal. This works ok, but is a bit slow to switch over (i.e. it will linger on weak signal for ages before using the other WAP with better signal).
The wireless signal given from the Sky router is not very good. And the Linksys tends to crash a bit meaning I have to reboot it.
I'm tempted to pickup 2 new gigabit wireless routers, 1 to plug into the Sky hub set to modem only so the Wifi router is a router, and the 2nd to act as just an access point. But I want to see if this is the best way to do it, or if anyone has a better suggestion? I don't want to replace the Sky router completely as I'll likely be moving over to fttx at somepoint in the not do distant future - so buying an ADSL2 modem would be a bit of a waste.
In terms of my requrements, I'd say I'm 70:30 for coverage:speed.
Thanks