Hi Guys,
Thanks in advance for this - seems like there's a lot of good help / information on this forum!
I've been digging around for information on a setup for a new house. The main challenge is pushing maximum data - certainly 200Mbit+, but much more is much better - across 25-30m.
I've attached a very rough diagram of the house. The Virgin 150Mbit cable modem will be at the front of the house, and several bandwidth-hungry man-cave components in a shed at the back of the garden ~25-30m away.
There are a couple of tricks / comments:
1. I need to not deploy routers that my wife would deem as ugly in the front room, or I need to hide them somehow
2. I can't run obvious cables through the house (for now)
3. I can't modify the downstairs much at the moment (e.g. re-wire behind walls)
4. The main objective is drawing Internet to the man-cave, but there may be some streaming from a NAS back to the house
5. I have flexibility in the man-cave/shed i.e. I could set up a more 'ugly' but functional router on the wall or some such. I think that I can just about create line-of-site (through 2 glass doors/windows), so that's positive
6. There is mains electricity connection through to the shed, but it does move through fuses. I believe that might cause issues for powerline adapters?
7. I have a pretty solid budget without going to enterprise craziness
8. Minimizing overall latency would be ideal as I like to game
I'm quite familiar with networking but haven't done much with high-bandwidth wireless over longer distances.
My best idea for now is to revert the Virgin super router to modem-only (hidden) and wire that to a more aesthetically pleasing 5th gen Apple AirPort Extreme AC in the front room so I can get LOS w/ beamforming. In the shed / man-cave I'm considering another AirPort Extreme simply for compatibility reasons, but am debating an Asus router with better network management tools and perhaps a directional antenna setup in an attempt to increase the overall gain & stability. I'm not sure of the nuances there.
Any guidance would be appreciated ... I need to live wireless for at least a couple of years and am used to wiring everything!
Thanks ...
Thanks in advance for this - seems like there's a lot of good help / information on this forum!
I've been digging around for information on a setup for a new house. The main challenge is pushing maximum data - certainly 200Mbit+, but much more is much better - across 25-30m.
I've attached a very rough diagram of the house. The Virgin 150Mbit cable modem will be at the front of the house, and several bandwidth-hungry man-cave components in a shed at the back of the garden ~25-30m away.
There are a couple of tricks / comments:
1. I need to not deploy routers that my wife would deem as ugly in the front room, or I need to hide them somehow
2. I can't run obvious cables through the house (for now)
3. I can't modify the downstairs much at the moment (e.g. re-wire behind walls)
4. The main objective is drawing Internet to the man-cave, but there may be some streaming from a NAS back to the house
5. I have flexibility in the man-cave/shed i.e. I could set up a more 'ugly' but functional router on the wall or some such. I think that I can just about create line-of-site (through 2 glass doors/windows), so that's positive
6. There is mains electricity connection through to the shed, but it does move through fuses. I believe that might cause issues for powerline adapters?
7. I have a pretty solid budget without going to enterprise craziness
8. Minimizing overall latency would be ideal as I like to game
I'm quite familiar with networking but haven't done much with high-bandwidth wireless over longer distances.
My best idea for now is to revert the Virgin super router to modem-only (hidden) and wire that to a more aesthetically pleasing 5th gen Apple AirPort Extreme AC in the front room so I can get LOS w/ beamforming. In the shed / man-cave I'm considering another AirPort Extreme simply for compatibility reasons, but am debating an Asus router with better network management tools and perhaps a directional antenna setup in an attempt to increase the overall gain & stability. I'm not sure of the nuances there.
Any guidance would be appreciated ... I need to live wireless for at least a couple of years and am used to wiring everything!
Thanks ...
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