Home wifi help

[asshanson]

Haha, glad one of my random suggestions last night helped. Sounds like what I had setup in my townhome, except I used existing phone line wiring to connect the modems instead of those powerline adapters. I hadn't heard of using TCP/IP over power lines, that's a cool idea. I know you can embed other various signals in them, but hadn't thought of internet. Basically eliminates the need for ethernet cable routing in the house.

I used to broadcast both my routers with the same SSID, but I think they sometimes got confused because I had the upstairs router acting as a sub-network with it's own DHCP assignments. So it would be transmitting to both, and it wouldn't work. So that's why I keep mine with different names now. A wireless access point setup should just act as a pass-through to the main router for IP addresses. So maybe yours is setup better and you won't have an issue. I just didn't want to spend any more time on it, and I never really use the basement one anyway, except for the tv/bluray which is always downstairs.

[Halon]

Originally Posted by asshanson

Haha, glad one of my random suggestions last night helped. Sounds like what I had setup in my townhome, except I used existing phone line wiring to connect the modems instead of those powerline adapters. I hadn't heard of using TCP/IP over power lines, that's a cool idea. I know you can embed other various signals in them, but hadn't thought of internet. Basically eliminates the need for ethernet cable routing in the house.

I used to broadcast both my routers with the same SSID, but I think they sometimes got confused because I had the upstairs router acting as a sub-network with it's own DHCP assignments. So it would be transmitting to both, and it wouldn't work. So that's why I keep mine with different names now. A wireless access point setup should just act as a pass-through to the main router for IP addresses. So maybe yours is setup better and you won't have an issue. I just didn't want to spend any more time on it, and I never really use the basement one anyway, except for the tv/bluray which is always downstairs.

Andrew, the powerline adapters are nice, but I don't think they're as good as an actual CAT5 connection would be. The ones I have are advertised at 200Mbps, but I don't think anyone ever gets anywhere near that speed. I'll try and do a test again one of these days to let you know what actual speed I'm seeing. It kind of sucks because my main PC is hooked through that. So when I have say a BluRay size file that I want to transfer from my PC to my NAS, it literally might take 10hrs. Where if I had a straight CAT5 connection, it'd probably take a small fraction of that time.