Home WiFi Signal Boost Options
59 minutes ago, Donut417 said:
You have a few options here. Firstly if your interested in building your own router you will need to look in to PFsense. Keep in mind you would still need to buy a switch and Wireless access point with this solution. Secondly, I dont really see the point of having two 5Ghz radio's, unless you running a lot of older hardware on 5Ghz, on top of that 5Ghz really wasnt popular with wireless N, so there are not too many older devices that use it. As far as 5Ghz is concerned, no you dont need to be in the same room, thats 60Ghz where you need to be in the same room. With 5 Ghz wireless N, I was about 20 feet away with two walls in between and still got 100% internet speed. 5Ghz just doesn't penetrate walls real well and its not built for distance, but will go a bit a distance. With my modem and router siting in my room now on the second floor of the house, the entire house and garage which is about 20 feet away from the house is covered in 5Ghz.
DDWRT is a advanced Linux based firmware that unlocked a metric shit ton of options for your router. It provides you will features you would see in business and enterprise grade environments. As a result its not easy to use, I had to go to the DDWRT forums on several occasions to get IPv6 to work with Comcast. Another issue you might run in to with it, is it makes the hardware work. My DIR835 router from DLink was pretty much a furnace after I install DDWRT, using the USB ports on the router and a spare laptop cooler solved that issue however. Your mileage may vary. The only other negative is the installation process. Its not "Just upload the firmware to the router", there is a process you have to follow or else you might brick the router making it useless. *See the DDWRT forum Peacock thread for more info on the installation process"*
Oh and Im currently using a Synology RT2600AC router, it seems to work well, and it sits around $200USD, they also have a little brother to my router that just a bit slower that also costs less. I figured I put it in to the running.
I'll look into PFsense, thanks @Donut417
I thought having 3 lanes would be useful to just split up the demand, but I'm not sure if that's the most effective solution anymore. I tried a test on my PC which is on the second floor directly above my router (on the first floor). The 2.4 GHz connection gave me a speed test of 35Mbps and the 5 GHz connection gave me 15Mbps. Do you know why the 5 GHz connection would have a slower speed? Also, dw I know I should be getting way faster speeds if I'm paying for a 1 Gbps service, which is the reason why I'm doing all this.
I'm leaning towards the C3150 because I think it's better to have the faster CPU, higher bandwidth on each frequency and the AC Wave 2 features.
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