Top floor or bottom?
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Top floor or bottom?
Antenna configuration? Location of most common use? House size?
I've got mine hung on the back of the monitor stand on my main rig. It work pretty good that way, wifes computer is at the other end of the house.
My house is two levels (main and finished basement) and I keep mine on the main, second level. My in-laws are getting a router and they have a basement, main level and second level.
I would say main floor centered. I have a Netgear and I get signal all over the house even out to the patio. I even have a wireless bridge in the basement and hook up computers for updates and testing and notice no loss in speed. But I just have a little 2 bedroom townhouse with main floor, upstairs and basement, so they might have more area to cover.
I'd go main floor then, depending on where they'll be using their PC/laptop.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheGreatSatan
I've got a 2 storey+ basement as well, and mine is in the mechanical room in the basement. Works pretty good for me, but I rarely use the laptop on the second floor.. i have a data jack in the bedroom which I use mostly for speed anyways (gigabit ethernet in the house).
I would definitely avoid having an AP in the basement. For the basement + 2 above ground floors, then yeah, I would say go with the first above-ground floor. I guess with normal house sizes antenna orientation won't really make a huge difference..bah...been working with too much enterprise stuff recently :P
Manuals always state to place a wireless access point as high as possible.
I am forced in my home to have it in my bedroom on the second floor, I live in a three floor house. The third being a converted loft.
so mine is a centralized set-up. when I am on the first/third floor the signal is very low and its my assumption that if the access point was on one of the other floors there would be a dead zone.
I live in a very old house using a bt homehub so I can understand the significant signal drop on the different floors
A good place would be in one of the above ground rooms with the least walls or obstacles.
Or you could get the signal booster antennas and install them upside down on the roof of each room.
Make on wooden box near by your PC setup otherwise you can use this one in your bedroom.