Router with best WiFi range

CorrectHorseBattery

CorrectHorseBattery

CorrectHorseBattery

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I can't run ethernet around my house and I want to get WiFi in all corners and perhaps outside - I can't at present.

I have some thick walls (kitchen is a particular problem), house and garden are around 7000 square feet.

What router should I get?
 
What have you got at the moment?
Are you able to position the router in a good central location?
Broadband connection type?
Budget?

AFWIW wireless routers obviously vary, but they all need to comply with the same rules so there are finite limits. You may be asking for the impossible.

Have you looked at the recent Mesh systems such as Google's.
 
I've been using an AirPort to good effect. They support WDS so you can add lots and lots of them to make a mesh network.
 
The UniFi APs are good, but they aren't magical.

If you aren't willing to run any Ethernet then you aren't going to be able to get it mounted in an optimal position. If one AP then turns out not to cover the area as you'd like you've got a problem. You'd usually install additional APs, but this would require more cabling (unless you resort to using Powerline adapters).

I'd suggest you investigate the mesh options as these will scale without having to run cabling.
 
Hater said:
I've been using an AirPort to good effect. They support WDS so you can add lots and lots of them to make a mesh network.
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AirPort devices are woefully out of date compared to their competition especially considering the price. Apple really do need to look at this.
 
My single Ubiquiti AP covers my whole house (4 Bedroom detached) as well as out into the separate garage and the whole garden. It does need to be mounted sensibly though, mines is on the ceiling above the stairs right in the centre of the house. Ethernet wiring isn't as hard as it sounds. I just drilled straight through the wall to the outside, ran the cables up the wall and into the loft. From the loft it's easy to drop ethernet points down through walls or wire in ceiling mounted APs.
 
neodude said:
My single Ubiquiti AP covers my whole house (4 Bedroom detached) as well as out into the separate garage and the whole garden. It does need to be mounted sensibly though, mines is on the ceiling above the stairs right in the centre of the house. Ethernet wiring isn't as hard as it sounds. I just drilled straight through the wall to the outside, ran the cables up the wall and into the loft. From the loft it's easy to drop ethernet points down through walls or wire in ceiling mounted APs.
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Same here. I got the AcPro and over 3 floors. 5000sq feet victorian/Edwardian house with Brick internal walls I can surf in the garden.
 
Gigabit said:
And you get full speed even in the garden?
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Just done a speed test on my phone, Virgin 200 and i'm getting 21.05DL and 12.95UL with a ping of 16ms stood about 6 foot from the AP. At the bottom of my garden which I think is about 100ft I'm getting 18.48DL 8.6UL with a ping of 15ms
Signal strength 6ft away is about -38dBm and at the bottom of my Garden is -75dBm.

I was going to buy 2 of them...Turns out I didn't need to.

Wired I get..........The freaking same....Hang on... I'll reset my router... Damn virgin.....37DL 12UL. Think I'll be phoning them tomorrow
 
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