would an AP work for this if so which one?

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we've added another office at work on a across the corridor from our existing office.

currently we have a bog standard talktalk router providing wifi for our office and its perfectly acceptable giving a solid 18/20 meg a second over wifi, now the new office is directly across the corridor but is through 2 foot thick brick walls, hence wifi speed in the new office takes a pounding and we're lucky to get 2/3 meg a second, would adding a dedicated decent brand AP give us a noticeable benefit? if so any recommendations

 

[Steveocee]

Can you speak nicely to the building owners and run a cable between the 2? If you're lucky it may be a suspended ceiling so the cabling would be invisible.

 

[bledd]

Are these offices cabled together?
Do your devices use ethernet but you want WiFi for mobiles etc?

How many users?

Sounds like you need a complete network overhaul..

 

[BigT]

I agree with both answers. If this is dedicated office space, there must be an easy way to run a cable between the two. And when you do then you overhaul how you do things.

Without more info, I'd suggest:

• Turn wifi off on your talktalk router.
• Run a cable between the two offices
• In each office put a Ubiquiti UAP AC-Lite

You'll then be able to just transparently move from one to the other seamlessly and have strong wifi signal everywhere. This assumes an awful lot we don't know though, like low volume of users and relatively small office spaces.

If you really can't run a cable then given they are across the corridor from each other, a mesh system might help but I'm not all that clued up on how well the nodes work through doors and walls.