Take a look at Homeplug or BPL devices. We recently reviewed a few Homeplug
v2 adapters with WiFi. They performed quite nicely. We are using them to
extend IPTV throughout houses that can't be wired. In most cases we could
perform 4 HD multicast streams. So between 40-60mb/s.
On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The Apple extender thing is basically WDS. It works better than some,
> but it's still an extender. Problem is, you can almost never tell how good
> or bad the signal is between the extender and the base station.
>
> I just have a blanket prohibition against the use of extenders. More
> problems than they are worth.
>
> bp
> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
>
>
> On 3/2/2015 11:00 AM, Sterling Jacobson wrote:
>
> The best I’ve seen in a house so far is Apple implementation.
>
>
>
> It’s probably the best and easiest, and the customer does it themselves.
>
>
>
> I wired a person’s main floor from their basement, which had the Apple
> Time capsule.
>
>
>
> His computer did 100/100 and so I put the extender in between the computer
> and the wall on the main floor.
>
>
>
> Then is computer still did around 90+Mbps (I think the extenders are only
> 100Base T FDX) and his iPhone6 did the same wirelessly at 98Mbps.
>
>
>
> I don’t know much about Apple, so the customer, who was also not very
> technically inclined, just loaded up the Apple App on his phone, and it
> auto discovered the new extender, added it to the network topology and BAM,
> done.
>
>
>
> He also had an extender on the top floor.
>
>
>
> Easiest solution ever.
>
>
>
> Is there anything like this for non-Apple people??
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com <af-boun...@afmug.com>] *On
> Behalf Of *Josh Luthman
> *Sent:* Saturday, February 28, 2015 6:40 PM
> *To:* af@afmug.com
> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Multiple AP in house
>
>
>
> We've generally done one SSID with success.
>
> At convention centers I do different because iOS had problems way back.
>
> Josh Luthman
> Office: 937-552-2340
> Direct: 937-552-2343
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> Suite 1337
> Troy, OH 45373
>
> On Feb 28, 2015 8:24 PM, "Mark - Myakka Technologies" <m...@mailmt.com>
> wrote:
>
> I have an installer that may have gotten a bit carried away with the
> home owner installing AP though out the house.
>
> Looks like we have one wireless router and 4 AP scattered around the
> house. I'm going over there on Monday to try to see if I can get
> these configured so they are not stepping on each other.
>
> Trying to figure out if I want to name all the SSID's to be the same
> or name them differently. Any pro's or con's either way?
>
>
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