Re: Help needed with home network configuration
Hi.
On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 09:17:06AM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> On Mon 09 Apr 2018 at 10:21:46 (-0000), Dan Purgert wrote:
> > Celejar wrote:
> > > On Sun, 8 Apr 2018 00:32:05 -0000 (UTC)
> > > Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> wrote:
> > >> If you have a device repeating a WiFi signal, it *will* use the same
> > >> channel as the upstream AP. It *cannot* use a different channel.
> > >>
> > >> In the event you have a dual-band AP, and the following conditions are
> > >> true
> > >>
> > >> - 5GHz uplink
> > >> - 2.4 GHz for clients
> > >>
> > >> Then you are not "repeating" the WiFi signal to the downstream client
> > >> devices (and the throughput losses I mentioned would not come into
> > >> play).
> > >
> > > There are also apparently some units (even consumer grade ones), that
> > > have two diferent radios both on (different) 5 GHz bands, so one could
> > > use one for client access and one for uplink (although I have no
> > > experience with this):
> >
> > Well, nice that they're starting to do that ... it's still a Linksys, so
> > (not having any experience with it either), I'd lean toward it not being
> > that great of a device.
>
> That's a shame. I was moving towards linksys after Reco's suggection earlier.
I'd like to state for the record that my suggestion implied installing
Debian on the router. In the case of those Linksys models - Debian for
armmp sub-architecture.
I have no experience with the stock Linksys ACM 1200 'firmware', nor
I'm intending to gain such experience.
Currently the thing is able to provide reasonable WiFi coverage across
~100 m² for 10 clients, which is enough for me. YMMV.
> > But then again, my views are skewed by dealing with equipment that'll
> > handle 50-60 (active) connections per radio (anything more, and there's
> > simply not enough bandwidth on the AP -- granted wave-2 ac / MU-MIMO is
> > quite interesting in that regard).
>
> I'm sorry I'm not in your league, being merely a home user trying
> to improve coverage around the house. I was aiming to make just
> one purchase to further that end. I couldn't afford to have the place
> wired up like a data centre.
Back in the day I used two Raspberry Pi for improving WiFi coverage.
It was very straightforward, although somewhat unconventional
configuration - two WiFi APs with the same SSID ('AP name' in layman
terms), each brigded to the same wired VLAN. Worked better than I was
anticipated, although I haven't bothered with 802.1n.
Reco
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