In our new house (ground floor, upper floor, basement with about 140 m2 (1507 sq ft) of living space), every room has a network cable connection (CAT-7 simplex). Both Wi-Fi and wired network are planned for us. We can either place the router in the hallway on the ground floor and extend the signal to the basement and upper floor using repeaters. A CAT-7 duplex connection is planned in the hallway for this. Alternatively, we could install the access point with the router in the basement. I’m not sure which solution is better. Apparently, repeaters don’t always work very well.
Does anyone know if access points are significantly better? If several access points are distributed throughout the house and connected to the network by cable, where should the router be located? In the basement? Will the Wi-Fi reception on the upper floor be good? How exactly does this work? Many thanks.
Does anyone know if access points are significantly better? If several access points are distributed throughout the house and connected to the network by cable, where should the router be located? In the basement? Will the Wi-Fi reception on the upper floor be good? How exactly does this work? Many thanks.
Payday schrieb:
just to clarify:
an Access Point is basically a repeater, except that it receives its signal through a network cable instead of via Wi-Fi. Unfortunately, that is not correct. Any traditional repeater in your network significantly reduces the data rate because it cannot transmit while receiving packets. This means packets are on the air twice as long, effectively halving the data rate. Interference with other networks is also doubled.
Payday schrieb:
just to clarify:
an access point is basically a repeater, except that it receives its signal via an Ethernet cable instead of Wi-Fi. a repeater receives its signal wirelessly and then amplifies it. an access point receives its signal through an Ethernet cable and either creates a new Wi-Fi network or extends the same network as the main router (with the same SSID) and boosts it. the advantage of the same SSID is that you have only one Wi-Fi network throughout the house, and devices automatically connect to the stronger signal. this is ideal for tablets/phones. a PC or NAS systems should never be connected via Wi-Fi but rather with a 1 Gbps (1 Gbit) network.
with the market leader AVM, you can switch between repeater and access point mode in the settings.
for home planners: you need a LAN cable from the router location (utility room? definitely near the telecommunications/network provider’s connection) to the place where you want to boost your Wi-Fi (e.g. upper floor because of a thick steel-reinforced concrete ceiling).Thank you very much. Very clear explanation.
Should I do the following: In the basement, there is the central point where all network cables from every room converge. A router, e.g. FRITZ!Box 7360, is planned there. On the ground floor, in the hallway under the ceiling about 30cm (12 inches) deep, I plan to install an additional network outlet and power socket, where an access point will be placed. This should be sufficient for Wi-Fi coverage throughout the entire house. If not, any other network outlet can be connected to a new access point. Is that correct?
MENGPQI schrieb:
If not, can any other network cable connection be used to connect new access points? Correct? Exactly
ONeill schrieb:
You don’t need a power outlet if the access point is powered via PoE (network cable).But I have asked different people. Everyone said that a power outlet should also be provided. What is the correct approach?
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