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Looking for a new router or a second node

Abaris

Good afternoon everyone.

I have this very old D-link 802.11g router and the Wi-fi signal is very, very weak. I want to upgrade to a better one considering my downloading speed is 10mb/s. The real issue is that my home walls are very thick and I need the signal to travel for at least 10m (33 feet aprox) across 2 wooden doors.

Do you suggest me to upgrade or place a second node, connect them both via ethernet and use the second one for all wireless stuff?

 

I'm kinda lost here :P

Thanx

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I would strongly look at the ubiquiti devices for home it has two advantages that may be advantageous to the signal problem you have been seeing

 

  1. This has one of the strongest signals that I have ever used in a home router, a lot of power, great antenna, tunable strength all make it an extremely strong access point 
  2. These devices use a software controller much like a commercial grade system would meaning you can put them all over the place and use a VM or PC to link them together over the network this allows you to put access points in several places in your house to get global coverage and make them look like one big access point. This technically is a better solution than repeaters or standalone access points with the same SSID as it significantly improves the bandwidth and or the ease of use and mobility as you move around and have to transfer between access points 

There are also other ancillary features to a controller setup that may be attractive, windows/AD/radius user authentication, multiple SSID's (think guest and private networks), better handling of power and frequency tuning to make sure the signal is clear everywhere even when your neighbors start blasting signals onto your property

 

Really it is a VERY cost effective way to cover large areas and make it seamless to you and your users, much better than throwing up standalones with a single SSID 

 

I would note that these are ACCESS points though they dont have any built in NAT/Routing functionality therefore are not a 1 for 1 replacement for your existing device functionality wise, this means you will have to have something (maybe your existing device) continue to act as the gateway to the internet while these just do the wifi part

 

Personality I use these in conjunction with a virtual smoothwall or untangle box. 

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