Hello all,
I have a property with two buildings separated by 100ft which will be used by around 15 Students. It can be safely assumed that they would have more than two devices connected each at any given time.
Each building has seven students living in it all rooms within single story hallways that a single AP can cover. There will also be common areas at the far edges of the buildings. To put things in perspective, if you draw a single line from one edge to the other, it would follow like this.
Common Area 1
Hallway of rooms
100 FT of Open Ground
Hallway of rooms
Common Area 2
The entire span would be from Common Area 1 to Common area 2 would be 200 feet in total with more than ten wooden walls in between.
The modem connection will be in Common Area 2.
I have been reading quite a lot on this forum but still have a few questions I was hoping could be answered.
We are planning on having the wirless network be on 2.4GHZ. We also want to do the same SSID for both with each AP being on different channels. Is this wise?
The current hardware that we have is a Netgear N600 WNDR3400. It is my understanding that I should purchase another Netgear to make the AP process easier?
How many APs do we need? I realize that the more APs the worst off the Common Area 1 speeds will be. Would three consumer grade APs be enough, or should we dish more money out and get two "high powered" APs or one "high powered" and use the Netgear on the far end?
We want to also attach a guest SSID similar to the feature that is provided on new routers these days on only one router in Common Area 1 where guests will be. I believe we would just purchase another consumer grade router at a cheap cost. Would it be possible to limit the speed on this connection verses the other AP and connected devices or give priority to the other connections first so that the guest users won't interrupt the resident's connections?
We currently will be using Charter for internet and am still deciding if a 15MB/S connection is sufficient or a 30MB/s upgrade is needed. Thoughts?
Thanks for your help!
I have a property with two buildings separated by 100ft which will be used by around 15 Students. It can be safely assumed that they would have more than two devices connected each at any given time.
Each building has seven students living in it all rooms within single story hallways that a single AP can cover. There will also be common areas at the far edges of the buildings. To put things in perspective, if you draw a single line from one edge to the other, it would follow like this.
Common Area 1
Hallway of rooms
100 FT of Open Ground
Hallway of rooms
Common Area 2
The entire span would be from Common Area 1 to Common area 2 would be 200 feet in total with more than ten wooden walls in between.
The modem connection will be in Common Area 2.
I have been reading quite a lot on this forum but still have a few questions I was hoping could be answered.
We are planning on having the wirless network be on 2.4GHZ. We also want to do the same SSID for both with each AP being on different channels. Is this wise?
The current hardware that we have is a Netgear N600 WNDR3400. It is my understanding that I should purchase another Netgear to make the AP process easier?
How many APs do we need? I realize that the more APs the worst off the Common Area 1 speeds will be. Would three consumer grade APs be enough, or should we dish more money out and get two "high powered" APs or one "high powered" and use the Netgear on the far end?
We want to also attach a guest SSID similar to the feature that is provided on new routers these days on only one router in Common Area 1 where guests will be. I believe we would just purchase another consumer grade router at a cheap cost. Would it be possible to limit the speed on this connection verses the other AP and connected devices or give priority to the other connections first so that the guest users won't interrupt the resident's connections?
We currently will be using Charter for internet and am still deciding if a 15MB/S connection is sufficient or a 30MB/s upgrade is needed. Thoughts?
Thanks for your help!