Hi all -
Living in a 3k sf duplex apt, so each floor is appr 85 - 100ft long by 15-18ft wide. Big long rectangle. Looking for a solution that gets me better coverage upstairs. Building is 8 units in urban location, cinder blocks, etc.
The apt is all connected via 5e ethernet w all lines feeding to an upstairs middle closet, but the front room of the basement has no ethernet port like all the other bedrooms do. Unfortunately, the ISP ran a new line to this front basement room, so that's the source of my internet and can't connect to the ethernet system unless I run a ton of cable over doorways and such.
I recently got a docsis 3.1 modem and have had an ac68u. Net advertised speed of my plan is 1200mb/s.
Partner works upstairs in the middle of the lengthwise apt and gets barely serviceable signal. Our upstairs bedroom at the complete other end of the apt from the router, so it's borderline unserviceable.
Whats my best approach here? I read AX is much superior to AC, so I could get a single AX86 pro or 88 pro and see how much that helps. Or I could try and take the tri band w wireless backhaul route and get an XT9 or say ax11000 to make the master and put my ac68u upstairs to get my partners office better signal and speed.
Per my understanding, it wouldn't work well to combine ax pro with ac wirelessly.
I don't really do anything super fancy - would sort of like to make a server at some point to stream movies, play emulators file share, etc, so I assume the extra 2.5gb port could be useful but not sure?
I feel like going tri band would allow me to add to a mesh network if ever needed. Rolling with an ax88 or 86 would be a one and done, crossing my fingers for better signal, and only adding if I ever got a place with wired backhaul.
Any opinions on which direction (ax vs tri band) and out of those two, which router?
Cost:
86 pro 150
88 pro 200
11000 260
XT9 1x for 190, 2x for 290
Do I just say screw it and get two xt9? That would obviously be the best I'd assume. If I'm paying 260 for single 11000 to use with existing ac68u, might as well pay 30 more for 2x xt9.
Me and options don't "mesh" well - any thoughts would be appreciated.
Living in a 3k sf duplex apt, so each floor is appr 85 - 100ft long by 15-18ft wide. Big long rectangle. Looking for a solution that gets me better coverage upstairs. Building is 8 units in urban location, cinder blocks, etc.
The apt is all connected via 5e ethernet w all lines feeding to an upstairs middle closet, but the front room of the basement has no ethernet port like all the other bedrooms do. Unfortunately, the ISP ran a new line to this front basement room, so that's the source of my internet and can't connect to the ethernet system unless I run a ton of cable over doorways and such.
I recently got a docsis 3.1 modem and have had an ac68u. Net advertised speed of my plan is 1200mb/s.
Partner works upstairs in the middle of the lengthwise apt and gets barely serviceable signal. Our upstairs bedroom at the complete other end of the apt from the router, so it's borderline unserviceable.
Whats my best approach here? I read AX is much superior to AC, so I could get a single AX86 pro or 88 pro and see how much that helps. Or I could try and take the tri band w wireless backhaul route and get an XT9 or say ax11000 to make the master and put my ac68u upstairs to get my partners office better signal and speed.
Per my understanding, it wouldn't work well to combine ax pro with ac wirelessly.
I don't really do anything super fancy - would sort of like to make a server at some point to stream movies, play emulators file share, etc, so I assume the extra 2.5gb port could be useful but not sure?
I feel like going tri band would allow me to add to a mesh network if ever needed. Rolling with an ax88 or 86 would be a one and done, crossing my fingers for better signal, and only adding if I ever got a place with wired backhaul.
Any opinions on which direction (ax vs tri band) and out of those two, which router?
Cost:
86 pro 150
88 pro 200
11000 260
XT9 1x for 190, 2x for 290
Do I just say screw it and get two xt9? That would obviously be the best I'd assume. If I'm paying 260 for single 11000 to use with existing ac68u, might as well pay 30 more for 2x xt9.
Me and options don't "mesh" well - any thoughts would be appreciated.
