Ok, I need 2nd, 3rd, and 4th opinions. Been fighting issues too long and I am too close to the situation.
We moved into our current home in 2009. Over the course of our residence here we have had some Wifi issues that just seem to not make sense. I have tried virtually everything and have gotten things working better, with better equipment but I still have issues. We currently have Charter for a provider. I currently am running only one wifi router but in the past I have run 2. The reason being is my wifes machine.
For some reason she has always (through 2 laptops) had wifi issues. I have very rare drops. In her laptops we have tried internal minipci nics from Realtek, Atheros, Intel etc, external usb dongles from ASUS and a few others.
The previous router I had was a Linksys E3000. The routers have always been in my office in the left rear basement (looking at the house from the street). My wifes office is on the next floor in the right front of the house, so its a diagonal line through the house. This line to the best of my imagining cuts through 4-5 walls and the hardwood floor. Also there is a good bit of heavy furniture on 2 walls that may curtail the signal some too. That said I routinely get wifi signals in that room in the -70 to -60 db range. She still gets drops, lots of them, and then has problems reconnecting. For a while I had an ASUS RT-N12(B) in there hooked to the bridged DECA connection. She still had drops but things like the EyeFi card she uses in her camera in there worked better than they do now.
Her previous laptop was running windows 7, the new none was Widnows 8 till last night. Now its on 8.1. Her office probably needs the wifi more than the rest of the house for her work. Again until recently she was only using wifi in there, due to the issues I have her plugged into another bridged connection in there to stop her drops but she doesnt like being tied to a wire. I have re-installed windows, drivers, tried other cards nothing seems to eliminate it.
Here is my question. What would you do at this point?
I have considered moving the R7000 up there but that would take running two cat5e/6 drops from my basement office to hers. One to connect the R7000 to the modem, the other to connect it to my primary etherswitch. I can do it but boy howdy would I like to avoid it. On the flip side there are no wifi devices in the basement other than the occasional smart phone or tablet moving through. The majority of the wifi action in our home is definitely upstairs.
As for external interference, our neighbourhood is not that wifi crowded really.
http://patentlystupid.com/sw/inssid.png
The top two are mine. AREN2109 and AREN2109_5 the only other 3 possible sources of large amounts of interference are; a) the electric meter is on the exterior wall directly below her office and is the wireless type that phones home. b) we live within 300 feet of one of the busiest interstates in the south, no telling what kind of RFI inducing crap drives by. c) the local WARRS system ( https://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?sid=5078 ) one of their towers is about one mile away and I have line of sight to the top of it, thought I have no idea if this could cause an issue.
I am including a network diagram. The only thing not pictured is the last DirecTV bridge with the wifes laptop currently connected. http://patentlystupid.com/sw/network.jpg
We moved into our current home in 2009. Over the course of our residence here we have had some Wifi issues that just seem to not make sense. I have tried virtually everything and have gotten things working better, with better equipment but I still have issues. We currently have Charter for a provider. I currently am running only one wifi router but in the past I have run 2. The reason being is my wifes machine.
For some reason she has always (through 2 laptops) had wifi issues. I have very rare drops. In her laptops we have tried internal minipci nics from Realtek, Atheros, Intel etc, external usb dongles from ASUS and a few others.
The previous router I had was a Linksys E3000. The routers have always been in my office in the left rear basement (looking at the house from the street). My wifes office is on the next floor in the right front of the house, so its a diagonal line through the house. This line to the best of my imagining cuts through 4-5 walls and the hardwood floor. Also there is a good bit of heavy furniture on 2 walls that may curtail the signal some too. That said I routinely get wifi signals in that room in the -70 to -60 db range. She still gets drops, lots of them, and then has problems reconnecting. For a while I had an ASUS RT-N12(B) in there hooked to the bridged DECA connection. She still had drops but things like the EyeFi card she uses in her camera in there worked better than they do now.
Her previous laptop was running windows 7, the new none was Widnows 8 till last night. Now its on 8.1. Her office probably needs the wifi more than the rest of the house for her work. Again until recently she was only using wifi in there, due to the issues I have her plugged into another bridged connection in there to stop her drops but she doesnt like being tied to a wire. I have re-installed windows, drivers, tried other cards nothing seems to eliminate it.
Here is my question. What would you do at this point?
I have considered moving the R7000 up there but that would take running two cat5e/6 drops from my basement office to hers. One to connect the R7000 to the modem, the other to connect it to my primary etherswitch. I can do it but boy howdy would I like to avoid it. On the flip side there are no wifi devices in the basement other than the occasional smart phone or tablet moving through. The majority of the wifi action in our home is definitely upstairs.
As for external interference, our neighbourhood is not that wifi crowded really.
http://patentlystupid.com/sw/inssid.png
The top two are mine. AREN2109 and AREN2109_5 the only other 3 possible sources of large amounts of interference are; a) the electric meter is on the exterior wall directly below her office and is the wireless type that phones home. b) we live within 300 feet of one of the busiest interstates in the south, no telling what kind of RFI inducing crap drives by. c) the local WARRS system ( https://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?sid=5078 ) one of their towers is about one mile away and I have line of sight to the top of it, thought I have no idea if this could cause an issue.
I am including a network diagram. The only thing not pictured is the last DirecTV bridge with the wifes laptop currently connected. http://patentlystupid.com/sw/network.jpg