Greetings,
I have a 2 story house with a basement in which pfsense box receives 2 ISP connections (cable + Uverse) and servers as firewall and router. I also have Asus RT-N56U which was my old router and now serves as AP connected to gigabit port of the switch, located on the first floor in the center of the house. I have gigabit switches (4-8 ports) on each floor including the basement with CAT5E connecting the floors. Network wise everything works but what I would like is
a) improve the wifi coverage
b) improve the speed from what RT-N56U provides me with.
c) ideally have an AP on each floor, and may be a something different mounted outside so that device can extend Wifi when not in the house
What should I be looking for? When I search for "Access Point" companies are trying to sell me a device that connects to Wifi network and exposes it over Eithernet. I can search for another switch and try to run that in AP mode (similar to what RT-N56U is doing) but aren't I then buying what I do not need?
Any thoughts or suggestions?
Thank you!
I have a 2 story house with a basement in which pfsense box receives 2 ISP connections (cable + Uverse) and servers as firewall and router. I also have Asus RT-N56U which was my old router and now serves as AP connected to gigabit port of the switch, located on the first floor in the center of the house. I have gigabit switches (4-8 ports) on each floor including the basement with CAT5E connecting the floors. Network wise everything works but what I would like is
a) improve the wifi coverage
b) improve the speed from what RT-N56U provides me with.
c) ideally have an AP on each floor, and may be a something different mounted outside so that device can extend Wifi when not in the house
What should I be looking for? When I search for "Access Point" companies are trying to sell me a device that connects to Wifi network and exposes it over Eithernet. I can search for another switch and try to run that in AP mode (similar to what RT-N56U is doing) but aren't I then buying what I do not need?
Any thoughts or suggestions?
Thank you!