Hello everyone, I've been lurking for a little while now, and thought I'd join the community.
I have a question about my home setup. I live in a bungalow and am trying to get full home wifi. I have Cat5 wiring run to my main living room area, and multiple lines run throughout my basement (this was installed by myself when my basement was being finished). All data lines run back to my electrical panel, as does multiple RG6 coax lines.
My ISP provided modem/router is the Hitron CODA-4582 supplied by Rogers Cable here in Toronto. My current setup is:
CODA in my livingroom______Cat5_____bsmt panel____gigabit switch____cat5___laundry rm___Linksys EA9200 set up as Lan to Lan access point.
This setup is providing decent coverage. I've got the Linksys configured on different channels (both the 2.4 and the 5G) from that of my ISP router, and I've disabled DHCP. I can access everything from everywhere as one big network (items connected to my Linksys do showup as wired though - no big deal). Even roaming works - takes a few extra seconds for my phones and stuff to connect to the Linksys, but it does it seamlessly and works.
My question is: I always planned on putting my CODA in my electrical panel. I have another router that can sit in my livingroom and provide wifi, but I am not exactly sure how to set everything up. Would I have to disable wifi on the CODA, and then set up both routers as access points? My plan was to set something up like my pic.
right? wrong? ideas?
Thanks!
I have a question about my home setup. I live in a bungalow and am trying to get full home wifi. I have Cat5 wiring run to my main living room area, and multiple lines run throughout my basement (this was installed by myself when my basement was being finished). All data lines run back to my electrical panel, as does multiple RG6 coax lines.
My ISP provided modem/router is the Hitron CODA-4582 supplied by Rogers Cable here in Toronto. My current setup is:
CODA in my livingroom______Cat5_____bsmt panel____gigabit switch____cat5___laundry rm___Linksys EA9200 set up as Lan to Lan access point.
This setup is providing decent coverage. I've got the Linksys configured on different channels (both the 2.4 and the 5G) from that of my ISP router, and I've disabled DHCP. I can access everything from everywhere as one big network (items connected to my Linksys do showup as wired though - no big deal). Even roaming works - takes a few extra seconds for my phones and stuff to connect to the Linksys, but it does it seamlessly and works.
My question is: I always planned on putting my CODA in my electrical panel. I have another router that can sit in my livingroom and provide wifi, but I am not exactly sure how to set everything up. Would I have to disable wifi on the CODA, and then set up both routers as access points? My plan was to set something up like my pic.
right? wrong? ideas?
Thanks!