Hello folks,
I'm hoping someone could provide me some advice for my home network. Unfortunately, wired networks are not an option for me since I live in a rental property. Most of my wired devices are in my office, approximately 12 meters from where my internet comes into my home. Currently, I have a (Netgear WNDR3700 v2) running OpenWRT in the office serving the home office. The WNDR3700 is connected wirelessly via 5Ghz to a (Ubiquiti NanoStation loco M5) for uplink to the internet. This is all working pretty well, and the NanoStation is providing sufficient speeds through the interior walls.
Across my home, another 50' through more internal walls is where my media room is. I would like to be able to stream HD video from my office PC to the TV. In addition, this is a poor quality wifi zone. The 2.4Ghz from the WNDR3700 can be seen, but has very poor connections from this side of my home. I'm looking for a solution to get a 1) fairly high-speed connection to the office (5Ghz point-to-point bridge?) and 2) serve up wifi over 2.4GHz for phones/iPads/etc on this "island".
I like the idea of the UniFi or similar access points for this purpose (e.g. UAP-PRO, UAP-AC), but I'm concerned that I can only use the wireless uplink to another UniFi device. Since I'm running OpenWRT on the WNDR3700, potentially I could create a second client bridge to the AP in the media area.
Anyone have suggestions or experience in similar wifi scenarios? Thanks in advance.
I'm hoping someone could provide me some advice for my home network. Unfortunately, wired networks are not an option for me since I live in a rental property. Most of my wired devices are in my office, approximately 12 meters from where my internet comes into my home. Currently, I have a (Netgear WNDR3700 v2) running OpenWRT in the office serving the home office. The WNDR3700 is connected wirelessly via 5Ghz to a (Ubiquiti NanoStation loco M5) for uplink to the internet. This is all working pretty well, and the NanoStation is providing sufficient speeds through the interior walls.
Across my home, another 50' through more internal walls is where my media room is. I would like to be able to stream HD video from my office PC to the TV. In addition, this is a poor quality wifi zone. The 2.4Ghz from the WNDR3700 can be seen, but has very poor connections from this side of my home. I'm looking for a solution to get a 1) fairly high-speed connection to the office (5Ghz point-to-point bridge?) and 2) serve up wifi over 2.4GHz for phones/iPads/etc on this "island".
I like the idea of the UniFi or similar access points for this purpose (e.g. UAP-PRO, UAP-AC), but I'm concerned that I can only use the wireless uplink to another UniFi device. Since I'm running OpenWRT on the WNDR3700, potentially I could create a second client bridge to the AP in the media area.
Anyone have suggestions or experience in similar wifi scenarios? Thanks in advance.