madhopsk

I went to FITES (http://www.fites.net/) in Harrisburg back in march and I usually check out LANREG for other LANS. 
I'm actually planning on going to this one September 18-20th. http://www.lanreg.org/wtl/1

I understand the point you are trying to make and I know there is a limit to the wireless spectrum's bandwidth. However, If your water supplier advertised "UNLIMITED WATER" for $50/month. Wouldn't you be pissed if your water pressure went down to just a dribble during your morning shower? The problem isn't the wireless spectrum, it is the companies that will advertise that they have unlimited data when in reality they can barely support 20% of their users at a time.

nope, nothing, its just plug and play the only real difference between CAT# is how they shield the cables so its inherently the same cable, just better shielded

yes it will work. and the speed will be the lowest common denominator (probably your ISP providing you with <1Gb

"You people"....*leaves*

If you can't offer unlimited service, perhaps it's not something you should say you can provide?

Oh no you mean they would need to upgrade their network to make it usable to everyone they sold their data to? 

Deliver what you advertise. If you can't  deliver it, don't advertise it. Otherwise, find a way to do it. Upgrade your infrastructure. Oh, you spend 10-15% of your gross profits on upgrading? Spend more. I don't pay half of my bill and I don't want you to deliver only half of your promises. You're giant, fat and rich corporation and I don't want to hear any excuses.

I have 0 data caps on my home connection. I know it's common in the US, Canada and Australia but it's not common in the rest of the world. I upload over 1TB (with a big B) a month and probably download just as much and I don't get any kind of throttling.
No hard or soft caps at all (on my house connection). I can understand the excuse of having data caps on mobile connections but I think it's inexcusable to have it on ADSL/Fiber connections.
 
 
I don't think anyone argues against the wireless spectrum having a very finite amount of bandwidth. You can't just add more or faster cables like with home Internet. You will probably have a hard time finding people who disagrees with this.
Interference is a bitch. You can't have a lot of people using the same wavelengths and carriers only have a small amount of the frequency spectrum they can use.
That's not why people are upset though.
 
 
This is where I think most people will disagree with you. If you buy something that says "unlimited data", then it's not "abusing the network" to use it a lot (I'd say 80GB isn't even that much).
On my carrier I have a 3GB data cap. After 3GB they start to throttle me heavily. I don't have to pay extra for using more data, but the speeds are pretty damn horrible (enough to for example check plain text emails though). My carrier advertises this as 3GB because that's what they allow me to use before throttling. By some ISP standards they could consider this "unlimited data" because I really can use however much I want, just at a reduced speed after a certain limit.
Don't advertise yourself as having "unlimited data" if you in reality have a cap of let's say 80GB. Advertise it as an 80GB cap. ISPs are making promises they can't keep and that's what's pissing people off.
The tech community can seem pretty hateful at times. I mean just look at Ubisoft right now. But most of the time they get mad at things because of lies. If ISPs, developers and other companies were just being honest about the limitations of their products then I am sure there would be far less hate directed at them.
Does your "unlimited data" plan have a cap and when that cap is reached people start getting throttled? Then don't say that it is unlimited data. Just say that it's an 80GB data cap or whatever it may be. Most people would probably be totally okay with getting throttled after 80GB if the plan they bought had an 80GB cap.

I'm switching ISP's in a few days due to data caps. its understandable from a business standpoint to upgrade infrastructure in the cheapest way possible, so that limitations exist and data caps "need" to be put in place. if infrastructure was designed to handle the highest load possible for the existing population, no caps would be in place, and it would be lost revenue from data over-usage and more money being put into infrastructure than needed. ergo, the premise of this thread is utter nonsense. 25-30% load on any wireless network results in congestion. its a mathematical formula that works across many fields of study. when infrastructure is designed, data caps are already part of the design, and not an after the fact "oh crap, we can't handle all the traffic" kind of decision. OP, go back and finish your Kool-aid.

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
 
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  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. 

You could buy a Ubiquiti UAP. Depending on your budget and range/speed needed they have a few different models.