Router + Access Point help

[Tallgeese]

Hi all. I currently have a network closet on one end of the house all my wired ethernet runs to. My asus Google wifi mesh has been weird,and I'd like to relocate just one wifi point to the center of the house guest room. Issue is the room only has one ethernet port. 

 

Do I need a managed switch, and then an access point in bridge mode. Is there such a thing as wired router to stick onto the access point. I've been googling a to know good answer.

 

Thanks all

[Electronics Wizardy]

You should need need. unmanaged switch. Then plug the access point and the other wired devices into it.

[Tallgeese]

52 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

You should need need. unmanaged switch. Then plug the access point and the other wired devices into it.

Looks like auto correct has done a number on that post. What exactly did you mean?

[Lurick]

You don't need a managed switch, any unmanaged switch will do fine or if you need power from the switch to the AP then a PoE unmanaged switch will run you a bit more but an unmanaged non-PoE switch should be around $20 for a 5 and a few $ more for an 8 port model.

[Tallgeese]

1 hour ago, Lurick said:

You don't need a managed switch, any unmanaged switch will do fine or if you need power from the switch to the AP then a PoE unmanaged switch will run you a bit more but an unmanaged non-PoE switch should be around $20 for a 5 and a few $ more for an 8 port model.

I thought the internet had to go through the router before a switch is introduced?

[Lurick]

25 minutes ago, Tallgeese said:

I thought the internet had to go through the router before a switch is introduced?

I'm confused then, you said you want to locate one of the wifi nodes to another point in the house so it would already be going through the main router to come in?

[Falcon1986]

4 hours ago, Tallgeese said:

Issue is the room only has one ethernet port. 

As in the room where the mesh point is to be placed has a working ethernet wall jack?

 

If so, and this port routes back to the network closet, just wire in the mesh point and connect the other end to the primary router. Google Mesh WiFi nodes are supposed to have secondary ethernet ports for wired backhaul IIRC.

 

Unless if I'm getting your whole setup confused...

[Tallgeese]

Sorry, I didn't describe it best. I currently  have a mesh setup. The middle of the house has weird hand off issues where the user gets bounced back and forth between nodes, so I am nixxing the mesh setup and instead would like to put a single access point in the guest room in the middle of the house. 

 

Basically  every room has one ethernet jack, all fed into the network closet on the farthest end of the house. This closet also has the main fiber line also. 

 

My understanding  is you need a router to assign it addresses. My question is what tech do I need to have the ip addresses assigned in the closet, and then I can pipe the wifi out on the other end of an ethernet jack?

[Falcon1986]

@Tallgeese

 

OK, so you want a whole new setup!

 

In that case, yes, you will need a router which will have to be wired into the fiber unit. Does the fiber unit already have a router built in? Does it have it’s own access point? What is your budget?

[Tallgeese]

The fiber unit does not have a built in router. The master bed room is on the entire opposite side of the house from the closet, and I currently get about 2 bars of wifi if I have only the primary on base hub spitting out wifi. Supposedly I can use it as a great access point and should be "fine".

 

Budget is cheap as possible,  but I want something that is good and will last. I'm not above spending some money for a solid system. I've debated one beefy wifi 6 router to cover the entire house from the closet, and not resort to the proposed router and center house access point, but my current router doesn't have enough range to hit the smart plugs in the master.