OceanStateTuning
New Around Here
Alright so quick story, I bought a second house that I am living in primarily right now, I still have my old house and need to keep wifi there for a while. My new Neighbor is also like a best friend to me so I have been using his wifi, he claims he sees speed difference and it works fine here so I will keep this until I switch my FiOS over here from my other house.
Anyway here is my current network:
Asus AC66U as my Primary Router/Switch. I am using this to repeat my neighbors WiFi Single. I am Running DD-WRT on this. I am repeating HIS SSID.
I have a few wired things on my network, Cloud Drive, Printer, Sony TV...
I am adding a couple of IP Cameras, 2 wired, possibly a wifi one soon. SO I went to buy a switch but saw a great deal on a D-Link DIR-655 on Amazon for less then $20, Gigabit ports on it.
My thoughts were to run a cat6 to this router from my asus to connect the cameras to as I need more ports anyway and broadcast a separate ssid in case I put a wifi so it does not clutter up my current asus that is already repeating and broadcasting.
BUT then I thought maybe I should move my ASUS to my attic wall facing his house to get it a little higher, put my new D-link in the basement to help my wifi down there (It is currently decent as it is mid floor BUT it is low) And run the same SSID on both my routers but keep them on a different SSID then my neighbors, this would make it better if say I add a Wifi Camera it would connect to the correct router and not slow down my connection much vs potentially putting too much on my Asus (I am pretty much always on wifi on my laptop, mine and my wifes cell phone, tablets and such)
Another thought is maybe pick up a dedicated router to act as the bridge between my house and his house, connect it to my Asus (put in attic) and then run the cat 6 to basement where I put the D-link (Put my Asus and D-link only on same SSID), Connect everything I need to and this should speed up my internet as it is not cutting my Asus speed in half.
Thoughts? It does work good now, I should probably not change it but I do need more only a few more ports so I have that D-Link and does look like it would be decent with its 3 antennas.
I put a wifi repeater in his shed for him as he had poor reception from his house (my first repeater I bought, cheap $20 plug in wall one) and I monitor it every once in a while and on occasion I see it picks up my house stronger then his house and will switch onto my Asus Router, When that happens his internet in his shed gets slow since its going through 2 repeaters.
I don't mind spending a little bit extra money right now as it is saving me roughly $100 a month by not getting a second Fios package, I do want to keep it setup so when I do switch my FiOS here there will not be much work into connecting the router to my Asus.
Anyway here is my current network:
Asus AC66U as my Primary Router/Switch. I am using this to repeat my neighbors WiFi Single. I am Running DD-WRT on this. I am repeating HIS SSID.
I have a few wired things on my network, Cloud Drive, Printer, Sony TV...
I am adding a couple of IP Cameras, 2 wired, possibly a wifi one soon. SO I went to buy a switch but saw a great deal on a D-Link DIR-655 on Amazon for less then $20, Gigabit ports on it.
My thoughts were to run a cat6 to this router from my asus to connect the cameras to as I need more ports anyway and broadcast a separate ssid in case I put a wifi so it does not clutter up my current asus that is already repeating and broadcasting.
BUT then I thought maybe I should move my ASUS to my attic wall facing his house to get it a little higher, put my new D-link in the basement to help my wifi down there (It is currently decent as it is mid floor BUT it is low) And run the same SSID on both my routers but keep them on a different SSID then my neighbors, this would make it better if say I add a Wifi Camera it would connect to the correct router and not slow down my connection much vs potentially putting too much on my Asus (I am pretty much always on wifi on my laptop, mine and my wifes cell phone, tablets and such)
Another thought is maybe pick up a dedicated router to act as the bridge between my house and his house, connect it to my Asus (put in attic) and then run the cat 6 to basement where I put the D-link (Put my Asus and D-link only on same SSID), Connect everything I need to and this should speed up my internet as it is not cutting my Asus speed in half.
Thoughts? It does work good now, I should probably not change it but I do need more only a few more ports so I have that D-Link and does look like it would be decent with its 3 antennas.
I put a wifi repeater in his shed for him as he had poor reception from his house (my first repeater I bought, cheap $20 plug in wall one) and I monitor it every once in a while and on occasion I see it picks up my house stronger then his house and will switch onto my Asus Router, When that happens his internet in his shed gets slow since its going through 2 repeaters.
I don't mind spending a little bit extra money right now as it is saving me roughly $100 a month by not getting a second Fios package, I do want to keep it setup so when I do switch my FiOS here there will not be much work into connecting the router to my Asus.