Good afternoon!
I am doing repairs in the new apartment. Including it is necessary to correctly create a home network.
In addition to the main router (in the closet), I want to put a repeater at the far end of the apartment.
I know that it only needs a regular socket, but !!!
Since I'm already doing repairs, wouldn't it be more correct to stretch a separate Ethernet socket to the repeater? As a humanist, I have doubts about how he can distribute a strong signal from the received weak signal. Logically, it can only expand the wi-fi coverage area ..
A friend suggested making an Ethernet socket as an option and connecting an access point to it via PoE. Will this be an extension of the network? Or will she just create a second wi-fi network?
Answer
Good afternoon! You did the right thing to ask your home network during the renovation process.
If the apartment is large (or a house), then it is clear that the router that will be in the closet may not be enough to cover the Wi-Fi network. In this case, as you already wrote, you can put a repeater (Wi-Fi signal amplifier). In principle, everything will work, but since the repeater receives the Internet via Wi-Fi and distributes it further, there will be speed losses. And the stability of such a scheme sometimes suffers. And as far as I know, the Internet cannot be connected to the repeater by cable. The repeater has a LAN port, not a WAN port.
Since you have the opportunity to lay a network cable from the main router into a distant room, you must definitely use this opportunity. At any time, at the other end of the cable, you can connect another router (in access point mode) or access point to the outlet. On the issue of expanding the main network, or creating a new Wi-Fi network. You can simply set the same Wi-Fi settings (name, password, and most likely channel number) in the settings of the second router (access point) as on the main router. Then you will have one network, and devices will seamlessly switch between routers. Repeaters work the same way, only they receive the Internet via Wi-Fi, and not via cable.
I think this scheme will work stably. In any case, the network cable will not be superfluous. Moreover, it is not difficult to lay it during the repair process.
14.03.17
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Asked by Eugene
