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Access Point recommendation
29-10-2016 12:46 PM - edited 29-10-2016 12:48 PM
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Can anyone recommend a good wifi access point? Its going to sit centrally on a desk in my house so it needs to broadcast in all directions. Most seem to be ceiling or wall mounted and broadcast most of its signal in in 1 direction. It will be connected via my switch to get the full speed of my internet (rather than a range extender)
I was looking at this https://www.asus.com/uk/Networking/EAAC87/ but I'm a bit confused if I can wire it into my switch or does it connect to my router wirelessly.
Basically I want to switch wifi off on my router and have the AP purely for wifi.
Thanks
Re: Access Point recommendation
29-10-2016 1:22 PM
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Use a windows box with a pci wifi card set into AP mode and bridge it to the lan connection. Then you have a great system that you can let people connect to and it will be more customisable than a small AP.. That way you can also use a custom external antenna of your choice.
A good card to get is one with the rt2500 chipset as you can set them into ap mode without running a software app to do it. I keep an old msi card for this reason.
Re: Access Point recommendation
29-10-2016 3:33 PM
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Thanks for the reply.
That sounds a bit complex and I'm not entirely sure what you mean ha. Plus my PC is a bit out of the way so it wouldn't make a great location for the AP.
I would just like something plug and play. I don't really need anything that customisable, just set a few SSID and be duel band.
Re: Access Point recommendation
29-10-2016 3:51 PM
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The one you linked to is ONLY single band , 5 GHz only I'm afraid
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Re: Access Point recommendation
29-10-2016 3:54 PM
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so it is!
How about this one! I actually much prefer the look too
Re: Access Point recommendation
29-10-2016 3:59 PM
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I just bought a tp-link wdr3600 for 35 quid from maplins and put DD-WRT on it.
Works great as an AP dual band etc, it's not the fastest thing out there, but It will cover all I need with DD-WRT on it.
Firmware: DD-WRT v3.0-r30709 std (09/29/16) Time: 15:54:24 up 16 days, 6:08, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.04
Re: Access Point recommendation
29-10-2016 4:47 PM
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Forward and reverse speeds for anybody interested.
Wifi 2.4/5 and gigabit switch passthrough, 915mbps Is good enough Lan wise as well.
iperf -c 0.0.0.0 -r WiFi 2.4gig [ 4] local 192.168.0.99 port 55588 connected with 192.168.0.44 port 5001 [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth [ 4] 0.0-10.0 sec 101 MBytes 84.5 Mbits/sec [ 4] local 192.168.0.99 port 5001 connected with 192.168.0.44 port 37834 [ 4] 0.0-10.0 sec 111 MBytes 92.7 Mbits/sec WiFi 5gig [ 4] local 192.168.0.99 port 55870 connected with 192.168.0.44 port 5001 [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth [ 4] 0.0-10.0 sec 98.4 MBytes 82.4 Mbits/sec [ 4] local 192.168.0.99 port 5001 connected with 192.168.0.44 port 37846 [ 4] 0.0-10.0 sec 99.2 MBytes 83.0 Mbits/sec Bit slower on 5gig, I can cope with that. pass-through switch Gigabit to Gigabit lancards. The slower forward out speed is just this USB-gigabit Thing, but the return is fine. [ 4] local 192.168.0.101 port 55875 connected with 192.168.0.44 port 5001 [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth [ 4] 0.0-10.0 sec 783 MBytes 657 Mbits/sec [ 4] local 192.168.0.101 port 5001 connected with 192.168.0.44 port 42608 [ 4] 0.0-10.0 sec 1.07 GBytes 915 Mbits/sec
Re: Access Point recommendation
29-10-2016 5:09 PM
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Linux to Linux speeds are a bit better as well.
WiFi 2.4gig [ 5] local 192.168.0.88 port 40576 connected with 192.168.0.44 port 5001 [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth [ 5] 0.0-10.0 sec 124 MBytes 104 Mbits/sec [ 4] local 192.168.0.88 port 5001 connected with 192.168.0.44 port 47188 [ 4] 0.0-10.1 sec 117 MBytes 97.8 Mbits/sec WiFi 5gig [ 5] local 192.168.0.88 port 40574 connected with 192.168.0.44 port 5001 [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth [ 5] 0.0-10.1 sec 120 MBytes 99.8 Mbits/sec [ 4] local 192.168.0.88 port 5001 connected with 192.168.0.44 port 47186 [ 4] 0.0-10.1 sec 118 MBytes 98.1 Mbits/sec
Re: Access Point recommendation
30-10-2016 4:47 PM
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Thanks for the help
I went with the Asus RP AC68U, set up in AP mode, it works well! Wifi is a million times better than the PN router.
Now it feels like I have a borg ship sitting on my desk
Re: Access Point recommendation
30-10-2016 5:00 PM
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Glad you got sorted!
£155..... WuT 😄
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30-10-2016 8:31 PM
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