I'm struggling with WiFi performance since i moved house.
Firstly the Wifi signal from the ground floor is quite weak on the top floor of the 3 storey house. It also struggles to reach the patio or far corner of the house despite being central.
The wifi is currently served by a billion 7700-N adsl wifi router.
In addition to the weak signal on fringe areas the wifi traffic / channels are VERY congested. This is on the 2.4ghz band.
I'm considering buying an airport extreme and placing this on the middle floor of my house transmitting 5ghz.
I'm also considering buying 2x airport expresses and extending the 5ghz signal... 1 for the top floor, 1 for the ground floor. I think this will give me decent 5ghz speeds. But how would i connect the airport extreme to the router.
Would homeplugs be sufficient? I assume i want to stream or airplay it will just stay within the wifi 5ghz network and not touch the router?
However any internet traffic will be routed through the homeplug which will limit the throughput but this should be ok as my broadband is only 20Mbit.
Or will the homeplug speed limit my wifi speed too?
Or should i connect the airport extreme some other way...
OR should i build the wifi network in a different way?
thanks
Firstly the Wifi signal from the ground floor is quite weak on the top floor of the 3 storey house. It also struggles to reach the patio or far corner of the house despite being central.
The wifi is currently served by a billion 7700-N adsl wifi router.
In addition to the weak signal on fringe areas the wifi traffic / channels are VERY congested. This is on the 2.4ghz band.
I'm considering buying an airport extreme and placing this on the middle floor of my house transmitting 5ghz.
I'm also considering buying 2x airport expresses and extending the 5ghz signal... 1 for the top floor, 1 for the ground floor. I think this will give me decent 5ghz speeds. But how would i connect the airport extreme to the router.
Would homeplugs be sufficient? I assume i want to stream or airplay it will just stay within the wifi 5ghz network and not touch the router?
However any internet traffic will be routed through the homeplug which will limit the throughput but this should be ok as my broadband is only 20Mbit.
Or will the homeplug speed limit my wifi speed too?
Or should i connect the airport extreme some other way...
OR should i build the wifi network in a different way?
thanks