What Access Point Do I need

[Yucca]

Any help would be appreciated.

I have a Netgear Rangemax Dual Band Wireless N Modem Router in my office. As the house is very big we have many areas the wifi does not reach.

Each room has an ethernet socket which is all collected to the modem router via a switch. Therefore I purchased a Netgear WN802T v 2 Wireless N Access point and had someone set it up in my lounge for me. We connected it to the ethernet socket in the wall via network cable and the access point extends/boosts the wifi in that room.

I want to buy a further 2 for another two rooms but the model seems to no longer exist. And any random website selling it is selling it for £80+ where as my original purchase years ago was only £23.99!

Iv had a look at Netgear access points and they seem to be very expensive. There are also several models and I don't know which one would be best to utilise the maximum potential of my current hardware.

Any advice would be appreciated.

 

[Yucca]

These are fairly inexpensive...

Trendnet TEW-814DAP

Will this model work fine with everything I already have and I can walk from room to room without having to disconnect and reconnect to different wifi's?

 

[Yucca]

I have installed a couple of Ubiquiti Unifi base stations in my house and so far they have been brilliant. They support seamless WiFi roaming which works really well.

Please tell me more? What is seamless wifi roaming?

What router are you using?

 

[Yucca]

If I buy and use all Netgear access points to use with my Netgear router then will I get seamless wifi from room to room in terms of having a VOIP call pass form one access point to another as you have said?

I assumed thats what my Netgear router and my one Netgear access point is doing currently? Or does my iPhone just jump from one to the other without me even noticing?

 

[Yucca]

These are fairly inexpensive...

Trendnet TEW-814DAP

They have a gigabit lan port on the back, is that were I connect my network cable into and then the access point emits the wifi out of the box?

Or does the access point pick up current wifi and boost it?

I want to hard wire the access point to the router via my cat 6 cable rather than picking up existing wifi as the room I want to put it in currently gets NO wifi signal at all......

 

[Yucca]

Thank you for all your help mate.

So you recommend I buy a few Trendnet TEW-814DAP's? Is this the best bang for buck AP you can recommend?

And will it take full advantage of all the features my Netgear router offers? Ie dual band etc?

 

[Yucca]

What are your views on this one in comparison mate:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=NW-081-AS&groupid=46&catid=1837

And this one is the next model up/slightly more expensive?...

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=NW-075-AS&groupid=46&catid=1837

Do these both do the same job as the Trendnet you have suggested and if so why is the second one more expensive than the first?

 

[Yucca]

Also, I'm off to Egypt in 2 weeks and my hotel room as wired internet access. If I take one of these access points with me can I plug it into their wall socket and create my own wifi in my room?

 

[Yucca]

Im not sure if I have any 5 GHz devices! The wifi is mainly for iPhone/iPad internet use but I guess I could be backing up stuff via wifi in the future.

From what you have said it seems its best I stick to buying your original suggestion of the Trendnet.

Egypt - Sounds complicated. Fancy a holiday? lol

 

[Yucca]

The only place I could find your suggested Trendnet access point was on a jewellery company!

Ordered 2 over 2months ago. The company is now in administration so no delivery and no refund

Can you recommend any other access point which is easily available? Don't OCUK sell something that can do what I want it to do?!