Need advice on Access Point or Extender

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DeonH

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Hi all and thanks for your valued help & time.
I have a WIFI-dead part in our single story house. I can get in the roof and make up my own cables as needed.
Our house is more or less in a L-shape my with study in the corner. In my study I have an old TP-Link TD-W8980 wireless ADSL modem which I use in "wireless router mode. It gets internet from a cable connected to our fibre router in our office, about 30m away. The Netgear Extender gets wifi internet from the old TP-Link router. To the end of the one leg is our TV room to which I have put in a cable in the roof for DSTV. Our kitchen is in the room next to it and there I have a Netgear Extender which gets internet from the old TP-Link wireless router. That leg of the L is covered.
The other leg of the L are the rooms of which our room is last and about 15m from my study.
Option 1: I want to put the old TP-Link wireless router on the ceiling more or less above my study. I am hoping, that just maybe, it will reach our room 15m down the passage.
Option 2: Still put the old TP-Link router in the roof and run a cable on the ceiling to an access point ±10 down the passage.

And this is more or less where I get stuck. I don't want to spend more than about R600 on this expansion. I had a look at the TP-Link TL-WA801ND to put on the ceiling as an access point.
OR, I can replace the old TP-Link ADSL router with the NEW TP-Link, move it little bit further down the passage and it will cover our rooms on the one leg and also be strong enough to provide strong signal to the NETGEAR extender in the kitchen.

Thanks for reading and appreciate your help.
 
DeonH said:
Hi all and thanks for your valued help & time.
I have a WIFI-dead part in our single story house. I can get in the roof and make up my own cables as needed.
Our house is more or less in a L-shape my with study in the corner. In my study I have an old TP-Link TD-W8980 wireless ADSL modem which I use in "wireless router mode. It gets internet from a cable connected to our fibre router in our office, about 30m away. The Netgear Extender gets wifi internet from the old TP-Link router. To the end of the one leg is our TV room to which I have put in a cable in the roof for DSTV. Our kitchen is in the room next to it and there I have a Netgear Extender which gets internet from the old TP-Link wireless router. That leg of the L is covered.
The other leg of the L are the rooms of which our room is last and about 15m from my study.
Option 1: I want to put the old TP-Link wireless router on the ceiling more or less above my study. I am hoping, that just maybe, it will reach our room 15m down the passage.
Option 2: Still put the old TP-Link router in the roof and run a cable on the ceiling to an access point ±10 down the passage.

And this is more or less where I get stuck. I don't want to spend more than about R600 on this expansion. I had a look at the TP-Link TL-WA801ND to put on the ceiling as an access point.
OR, I can replace the old TP-Link ADSL router with the NEW TP-Link, move it little bit further down the passage and it will cover our rooms on the one leg and also be strong enough to provide strong signal to the NETGEAR extender in the kitchen.

Thanks for reading and appreciate your help.
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Extenders always cause more problems than they solve but I picked up a Tenda AC10 from Scoop at a good price. Its been decent!!
 
r00igev@@r said:
Extenders always cause more problems than they solve but I picked up a Tenda AC10 from Scoop at a good price. Its been decent!!
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Would also recommend it, has better range than my archer D5.

For cabling, recently I've been looking at fiber with 2x SFP to RJ45 on both ends, comes to around R1200. Easier to run in the roof/down walls than shielded cat5e and any upgrades will only be the equipment on both ends.

At 30m running copper will still be a bit cheaper though.
 
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