I'd second that, if you're planning on being there for any length of time
it's worth running a hardline. You can run 200-300 feet of cat5 cable from
the router to your room, you can either hook the other end directly to your
computer or an ap in your room.
Also lately, comcast in particular has been making AP's with incredibly
weak antennas, that sometime barely function standing right next to them so
you may also resolve the problem by replacing the modem, or by turning off
the wifi and attaching a decent wifi ap (WRT54G/Buffallo/abgn/etc)
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Pete Forsyth <peteforsyth(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Max, I will let others step in with advice about
specific products. You
may have already thought of this, but I want to urge you to consider
solutoins that don't involve a repeater -- I suspect that the latency
introduced will be frustrating for things like VOIP. (Also, unless things
have evolved, I think repeaters are all somewhat non-standard, and
therefore a little finicky about whether your other network equipment is
from the same vendor, etc.)
Is there any way to hard-wire an access point to the CCAP(tm)? Like,
running an ethernet cable to a wireless access point (via wire that's
either inside or outside the house) that's a bit closer to your room?
It might take a bit more work upfront, but the parts would be more
standard, more reusable, in addition to providing a connection with less
latency.
Pete
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 8:02 AM, Max Klein <isalix(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Sudo Mesh,
I moved into a new house and the connection in my room is very weak. They
discussed that we could purchase a wireless repeater. What would be a good
piece of hardware that could act as a wirless repeater and as a sudomesh
device? If they aren't interested in replacing their crappy cablemodem-AP,
what's the right setup here? Two sudo mesh nodes, one wired into the
cablemodem, and another closer to my bedroom that's part of the mesh?
-notconfusing?
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