Wifi in a Big house

Dr House

Dr House

Dr House

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Hi all

I am doing up my flat at the moment, its quite big and has solid walls.

I would like to get a good wifi signal in all the rooms so I thought it may be a good idea to put some sort of antenna system in.

here is the floor plan
http://i872.photobucket.com/albums/ab283/nastytooth/ph.jpg
I thought maybe one in the utility room and one in the dining room.

The walls not plastered yet so I can put in what ever cables I need, I have no idea about this stuff so any suggestions would be useful.

Same goes for the DEC phone
 
Get a good quality router, pit it as centrally as possible, test the signal take it from there.

Some seemingly solid Walls the will signal pass through as is it's not there, other thin Walls stop it dead in it's tracks.
 
I will give it a go but problem is that the none of the plasterboard is on yet nor are the sold walls plastered so when that is done the signal my change but it will be too late to put cables inside the walls.
 
I've recently had a few jobs in the local area to boost wireless signal. I've found these TP-Link Access Points to be perfect for the job in Repeater Mode.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=NW-006-TP&groupid=46&catid=1837&subcat=

I found in most situations a little over half way gave best strength for the range. However, in preference I'd run a cable and use them as access points; much more reliable. Other than you'll have to manually switch between the different points depending on strength if there is any overlap.
 
Dr House said:
I will give it a go but problem is that the none of the plasterboard is on yet nor are the sold walls plastered so when that is done the signal my change but it will be too late to put cables inside the walls.
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IMHO... get some CAT5e cable run out now whilst access is easy and if you need additional APs, you can cable them back to a switch / router. Saves messing with APs in repeater mode.
 
Go to The Gadget show website as they did a feature on a show tuther week about this same thing, Dude sorted a decent Wifi signal throughout an old castle. :cool:
 
Just used one of those TP-Link AP's in our waiting room area - very large waiting room and it cover the whole area and most of the 1st floor of our surgery - the range is amazing on these things.

R

Mehul
 
Thanks for the info everyone, I will look into the access point idea and I will take a logo at the gadget show website.

We do plan to run cat6 to every room.
 
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