ᐅ Plan for Internet, Router, and Signal Coverage

I bought a mid-terrace house with a ground floor of 60m² (kitchen, living room, hallway, toilet, utility room) and three bedrooms on the first floor.

The house will be set up as a kind of "medieval shared flat," meaning two unrelated adults living together. Like students, but in an adult version.

The telecommunications connection enters the house on the ground floor next to the front door. The router will be placed there. Is this sufficient for internet access on both floors for two people? If not, how can I extend the signal to the first floor?

Unfortunately, I’m not familiar with the technology. Sorry if this is a very basic question.

You will need to "extend" it to make it work properly. Visit the store you trust—you're not foolish—and ask for repeaters.

Ah, thank you. That already clears up part of my ignorance. It stays wireless with the repeater, right? So I don’t have to install LAN sockets in every room? Is one option better than the other?

Bertram100 schrieb:

The house is going to be set up like a kind of "medieval shared flat," meaning me and another person who are not partners will be living together. Like students, but in the adult version.

Two bachelors alone in the house. I don’t know your hobbies or internet habits, but I would say the internet is much more important to you than average. In the worst case, you want to stream 4K movies simultaneously and also play online computer or console games with low latency. For that, you need wired connections, and I wouldn’t compromise on that at all.

Bertram100 schrieb:

Ah, thanks. That already clears up part of my ignorance. With the repeater, it stays wireless. So I don’t have to install LAN sockets in every room? Is one better than the other?

Wired is ALWAYS better.
If wireless is absolutely necessary, I would at least run a cable to the second floor to connect another access point there.

With a mid-terrace house, always keep in mind that there are Wi-Fi networks on both sides that can interfere with yours. This can already have a negative impact on your Wi-Fi.

If you want it to work more reliably, use Wi-Fi access points connected to the router via Ethernet cable. The position next to the front door is also rather suboptimal. Is it an existing house, or can you still make some changes?

At the top of the stairs [see https://www.hausbau-forum.de/threads/Standort-Küche-und-Wohnzimmer.32688/], I think placing an access point (or possibly just a repeater in this case) would probably be the most practical solution. Don’t you have an installation shaft roughly in the middle?

I can’t quite remember if you had indicated on the floor plan where you live and where the co-houser is located. For further recent discussions on this topic, see also: https://www.hausbau-forum.de/threads/lan-Dosen-setzen-noch-zeitgemaess-WLAN-drahtlos-ist-die-Zukunft.33656/page-23#post-382399

The repeater/access point market is not really my area of expertise, so I’m not sure how relevant it is to point out the installation location (in the Netherlands, if I remember correctly).

Tassimat schrieb:

Wired connections are ALWAYS better.

I agree: wireless is primarily for nomadic users, and laziness when it comes to cabling is not a good reason to rely on it.

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