How should I increase the range of my wireless network?
aswine
I'm working for a small business which has less than 50 devices on a network. About 25 are connected wirelessly to an 802.11n router which is the DHCP server and is plugged into our cable modem. An Ethernet switch is also plugged into the router, and the rest of the devices are plugged into that switch. Our building is fairly large, more than 120 feet long, much of which is open space. The walls are made of concrete. On the far end of the building from the router, the wireless signal is poor.
I think it would be best to run a cat 6 cable to that part of the building and have a device there that will extend my existing wireless network. I think that would be better to have this device be wired to the network rather than repeating/boosting a poor wireless signal. I want to have one local network throughout the whole building, rather than have two SSIDs, and preferably one subnet.
Is this possible? What kind of device would I use?
Joe
Yes, and preferable; running a ethernet cable through the building and setting up a access point in the low signal area is the way to go.
As far as what kind of device you should use, it really all depends on what their existing infrastructure looks like, and more importantly, what devices you are able to reliable and properly configure. Purchasing a couple Cisco Aironet 2600is would be great, but if you cant configure them properly then they are basically just paper weights.
If you want to go with some Netgear/Belkin/Linksys (or whatever) access points, thats fine, all you would have to do is make sure that the SSID's are configured identically (same name, security, exc.) on both access points, and wireless devices will take care of bouncing between the two.
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