On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 12:13 PM, King Beowulf <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 03/31/2018 11:02 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Sat, 31 Mar 2018, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > > >> The house is wired for ethernet and there is a jack in the bedroom. > > > > John, > > > > Have you considered putting a wireless access point in the bedroom, > > connected to the ethernet port? You can configure it as an access point > and > > not a router so it's just another node on your LAN. > > > > Rich > > Indeed. Any decent wifi router recycled from Free Geek (for example) > can be configured with DD-WRT or OpenWRT/LEDE as a range extender/AP on > the that room's ethernet port. Or you can pick up a dedicated box such > as NETGEAR WN2000RPT or similar (usually <$40). > > Note the difference between "extender" and "repeater". A wifi repeater > takes a wifi signal and rebroadcasts on another channel. If you are too > far from the main wifi router this may not work too well. A wifi > extender plugs into a wall ethernet jack and as far as your devices know > they are sitting right next to your wifi router. > Yes. And unless you have a realllly good reason not to, use the same SSID and passphrase for all the routers/APs sharing the same subnet for simplicity's sake. Set each router/AP to a separate and fixed channel, one of 1, 6 or 11, instead of using the Auto setting. Hopefully there isn't a nearby router or RFI source on more than one channel. May require futzing with to find the best combination. NealS _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
