New guy here.... so I'm dealing with a bit of a nightmare. My network closet is in my basement which consists of my patch panel (wired with cat5e and 6), Netgear 7000 router, Surfboard 6121 and a Netgear 8 port unmanaged switch. All was working fine for the longest. Then one day something (?) changed. I was unable to maintain a stable 2.4ghz connection. I can see the SSID strong signal but I can't connect to it. The devices that are connected to it appear to remain connected but no internet. While many of my devices can utilize the 5ghz a few devices cannot such as my home smoke and c/o alarms, a couple cameras and my Chromecast . So I bought a new router (Asus Rt-ac68p). Same problem. So now to my actual question.... I want to try and move my router from the wiring closet to the main level of my home to see if maybe the signal strengths are being reported inaccurately. To do so, I would need to go to a switch first and then to the cable modem. I know that the surfboard will only dish out one IP to the mac address it sees first. Would a managed switch with a link port solve this issue? On a side note, I have turned off all wireless phones, microwaves, Bluetooth devices to no avail. I have tried changing channels while actively having the problem also to no avail. No channel seems to solve or mitigate the issue. Not sure if someone's wireless alarm system (that I can't see) could be interfering. Wired and 5G devices work fine during all this. So, is there a way to run from my surfboard to a switch to my router on a different level of the home? Sorry for the life story above....
Jim
Jim