Acess Point and the Modem in the same room.

[AlanAlan]

I want to set up an access point for my house. The reason I set up the access point in my room is because it is at the center of my home. I want to know if both routers are in the same room will have any interference? I will only connect devices to the access point. I have an AT&T Gateway.

[ProjectBox153]

Explain your setup more. You have a modem (is it a router combo?) and an access point. Is there something wrong with the first router (or modem/router combo)?

[Marshnt]

4 minutes ago, AlanAlan said:

I want to set up an access point for my house. The reason I set up the access point in my room is because it is at the center of my home. I want to know if both routers are in the same room will have any interference? I will only connect devices to the access point. I have an AT&T Gateway.

If you use separate channels or even better use separate frequency you will be fine. 

[kb5zue]

1 minute ago, Marshnt said:

If you use separate channels or even better use separate frequency you will be fine. 

Yep, use 2.4GHz on one of them and 5.0GHz on the other.  Combine that with different channels and you're good to go.

 

[Julian5]

if you will be using the access point for all your devices you might as well disable the router's wifi and use it as a modem unless you want 2 networks.

[AlanAlan]

18 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

Explain your setup more. You have a modem (is it a router combo?) and an access point. Is there something wrong with the first router (or modem/router combo)?

The AT&T gateway is a router and landline combo. The gateway couldn't reach the entire home. So I looked online for tutorials to setup the new router with the gateway but many ran into problems while trying to connecting (the mode when you transmit everything to the new router and use it as the main network) not sure what it is called. So decided to make a access point. They are in the same room but all my devices are connected to the access point. I had discounted all my devices from the AT&T gateway. I only use the access point. I want to know if there is going to be any interference?

[AlanAlan]

35 minutes ago, Marshnt said:

If you use separate channels or even better use separate frequency you will be fine. 

 

2 minutes ago, Julian5 said:

if you will be using the access point for all your devices you might as well disable the router's wifi and use it as a modem unless you want 2 networks.

currently I do have 2 networks but I only use the access point signal since it can reach further areas of my home.

[Julian5]

Just now, AlanAlan said:

 

currently I do have 2 networks but I only use the access point signal since it can reach further areas of my home.

there should be no issues with interference but you might as well disable the wifi on the router if you dont use it.