Rockin Mike
New Around Here
Greetings, it's my first post on SmallNetBuilder. Thanks for being here to help.
I have an L-shaped house with a brick exterior.
The wireless router is in the least fortunate position; it's in an enclosed patio inside the acute angle of the L and must penetrate brick to reach anywhere in the main house.
+======================+
|......................|
|...WING A......AREA C.|
|......................|
+===============+......|
. . router->[x] |......|
. . . . . . . . |......|
. . . . . . . . |WING B|
. . . . . . . . |......|
. . . . . . . . |......|
. . . . . . . . +======+
I have cat 6 going into both wing A and wing B and I would like to have wireless access everywhere, and have only one network for everything.
I'm told I can do this by putting wireless Access Points on the cat 6 in wings A & B, but will there be problems in area C where the wireless AP ranges overlap?
Is it possible to have wapA & wapB inherit their security configs from the main router?
Is there a reason why they should or should not all have the same security config?
I'm currently running Trendnet TEW-731BR router set with B/G/N mixed mode and wpa2-psk with autodetect tkip/aes cipher.
The access points recommended are Trendnet TEW-638APB.
Also, please let me know if WAPs are not the right/best way to accomplish this.
Thanks in advance for all helps!
I have an L-shaped house with a brick exterior.
The wireless router is in the least fortunate position; it's in an enclosed patio inside the acute angle of the L and must penetrate brick to reach anywhere in the main house.
+======================+
|......................|
|...WING A......AREA C.|
|......................|
+===============+......|
. . router->[x] |......|
. . . . . . . . |......|
. . . . . . . . |WING B|
. . . . . . . . |......|
. . . . . . . . |......|
. . . . . . . . +======+
I have cat 6 going into both wing A and wing B and I would like to have wireless access everywhere, and have only one network for everything.
I'm told I can do this by putting wireless Access Points on the cat 6 in wings A & B, but will there be problems in area C where the wireless AP ranges overlap?
Is it possible to have wapA & wapB inherit their security configs from the main router?
Is there a reason why they should or should not all have the same security config?
I'm currently running Trendnet TEW-731BR router set with B/G/N mixed mode and wpa2-psk with autodetect tkip/aes cipher.
The access points recommended are Trendnet TEW-638APB.
Also, please let me know if WAPs are not the right/best way to accomplish this.
Thanks in advance for all helps!