How big is the house? We have a modem in the basement, wi-fi router in the
basement and have good coverage over the whole house (two story + basement
1500sq ft each floor). You could probably use a hard wire ethernet
connection from your modem to a wi-fi router on the 1st or 2nd floor and
cover the whole house that way. BUT a lot will depend on how big the house
is, what the walls and floors are made of and how much interference is
present in the area. You may have to do a little trial and error to get it
working the way you want. We use an ASUS Dark Night A66u N900
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833320091 bought in
2012, has worked great for us ever since.
On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Scott Hall <scott.hall.personal@gmail.com>
wrote:
> New house has two options for internet: Frontier DSL and Mediacom coax.
>
> Mediacom wants a $100 'setup' fee and has a usage cap. Yes, I called back
> to make sure it was still 2015 and that I hadn't fallen into a time warp to
> 1989. In Bolivia.
>
> So...DSL it is.
>
> The house--and I'm not making this up--has no working phone jacks in it.
> There were only two in the whole house anyway. This thing was built BEFORE
> phones to begin with, and they never wired the whole thing?
>
> Anyway, they've got to punch a new hole through to the outside and they
> want to do it in the basement. Fair enough, no one will mess with it there.
> Problem: the free modem is also a modem and wifi router, and the guy
> assures me it won't reach to the third floor, where I'm living while I
> destroy the rest of the house.
>
> I'd like to do this once and right. Any advice?
>
> Modem in the basement, wifi routers on each floor for good coverage? Any
> advice on how to set up those routers, or which to get? Ideally I'd use the
> same network ID and could just go from room to room/floor to floor
> seamlessly. I'm willing to tear out walls for wires if I need to. A
> website to peruse would also work if this is too newb to go into.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Scott
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