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I'll start off by saying that the hardware used here is not cheap, that I paid for it in Euros, it's probably overkill and that I am not a network expert. However, stuff doesn't buffer in this house.
Setting the scene...
Here in the Netherlands our houses are vertical and very well insulated against to retain heat and kill wifi signals. Also our fiber/internet connections typically sit in a metering cabinet at the front door together with the mains, gas and water connections behind a door. So unlike in RSA where you put a strong wifi router in say your living room which provides adequate network access to your huge but mostly single story houses, your shitty ISP provided router often sits in this cabinet - which sucks because your wifi signal is basically non existent by the time you exit the foyer.
So your options are mesh or some sort of repeater setup which is the average setup here or you use the network cables running to every floor at setup access points. When we moved in I had my TP-Link Archer AX73 with me. To make do I bought another one and an Omada ER605 router which is a small little tin box with no wifi I can can easily hang up in the metering cabinet, connect the two AX73's as access points in the living room (ground floor) and one on the second/top floor office (three story house). For my 1000/1000 line I easily got 900 download on speed tests but the middle floor where the bedrooms are was a dead zone. There I had a smal AC1900 100mbp wire access point just to run our mobile phones on in the evening (because cell signal is pretty **** here).
And then...
So everything is running fine when the wife decides, "Hey, that ‎ bedroom would make a good hobby room/office. Once less flight of stairs to climb!" followed by "The internet is so ****!" at which point it became my problem.
So with an excuse in hand to spend way too much money, I expanded the network with more Omada devices:
Extra to this is a Technitium DNS server running on a NUC.
Setting the scene...
Here in the Netherlands our houses are vertical and very well insulated against to retain heat and kill wifi signals. Also our fiber/internet connections typically sit in a metering cabinet at the front door together with the mains, gas and water connections behind a door. So unlike in RSA where you put a strong wifi router in say your living room which provides adequate network access to your huge but mostly single story houses, your shitty ISP provided router often sits in this cabinet - which sucks because your wifi signal is basically non existent by the time you exit the foyer.
So your options are mesh or some sort of repeater setup which is the average setup here or you use the network cables running to every floor at setup access points. When we moved in I had my TP-Link Archer AX73 with me. To make do I bought another one and an Omada ER605 router which is a small little tin box with no wifi I can can easily hang up in the metering cabinet, connect the two AX73's as access points in the living room (ground floor) and one on the second/top floor office (three story house). For my 1000/1000 line I easily got 900 download on speed tests but the middle floor where the bedrooms are was a dead zone. There I had a smal AC1900 100mbp wire access point just to run our mobile phones on in the evening (because cell signal is pretty **** here).
And then...
So everything is running fine when the wife decides, "Hey, that ‎ bedroom would make a good hobby room/office. Once less flight of stairs to climb!" followed by "The internet is so ****!" at which point it became my problem.
So with an excuse in hand to spend way too much money, I expanded the network with more Omada devices:
- ER605 - router/gateway used as the DHCP server (had it already)
- ES205GP switch which will supply POE to the access points
- 3x EAP655 access points (AX3000)
Extra to this is a Technitium DNS server running on a NUC.
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