Help me setup my work network

[toufas]

So, I work at a restaurant. It's in an old building in london, there is a basement with an office and as you can imagine, thick stone walls.
We have 3 wired ticket printers on a router, and we have a dsl connection.

My boss's brother works for linksys so he asked me to find any equipment from them in order to setup the wifi signal to be strong, and provide customer wifi if it's possible.

Any recommendations? Cost can be not an issue, but lets not get things for the sake of getting them, but for the sake of practicality.

[skorn]

On 8/10/2016 at 7:13 PM, toufas said:

So, I work at a restaurant. It's in an old building in london, there is a basement with an office and as you can imagine, thick stone walls.
We have 3 wired ticket printers on a router, and we have a dsl connection.

My boss's brother works for linksys so he asked me to find any equipment from them in order to setup the wifi signal to be strong, and provide customer wifi if it's possible.

Any recommendations? Cost can be not an issue, but lets not get things for the sake of getting them, but for the sake of practicality.

 

How many ports does the router have on it? You may need to invest in a switch to add more networking equipment if there are already 3 ports in use. If there are thick stone walls, you'll want to look at 2.4 GHz (some say it penetrates walls better, could maybe get a dual band if you want some better speeds but if you're running DSL there is no point). Think stone walls also means you'll most likely want to have a PoE AP. If money is not a problem, here is one that I found that we typically recommend for clients. There is also a dual band if you want to run both 2.4 and 5 here.

 

You could also get a wireless-AC AP if you wanted to. I don't really see a need for them in a restaurant setting, from experience the only time people use them is to get on their phone while waiting for food. Typically they don't stream video, as it is typically hard to head videos in a restaurant. So you're most likely looking at people browsing the web, using facebook, etc. Plus, like I said, you have a DSL connection so I don't see it having any noticeable difference in speed.