Router Recommendations for Large House: TP-LINK AC1750 Archer C7 vs TP-LINK Archer C1200?

Question

Hello, what do you recommend a router for a large house, where the router must be in the attic and that the range and speed of the Internet is very good on each of the 2 floors down. I was looking for a few, but the opinions are different ... what I care most about is that the range is very good...

hermes-80 · Answer

Oh, that's Tom Cruise, you have to ask. Maybe it will record the next part mission impossible.

bogiebog · Answer

WIFI, For more than one wall and many floors, the correct solution is the main router + additional WIFI router in places of poor access connected to the main router by cable.

Read the alphabet for increasing WIFI coverage

WIFI antenna - The dependence of the antenna beam angle on the gain

WIFI propagation in buildings

https://www.elektroda.pl/rtvforum/topic3208196.html#15708812

sebonieb · Answer

Until now, I had an old link with a good few years, the range was on the entire upper floor and on the lower one in the rooms directly above the router, I thought that after so many years there are routers that can support such a range, and connecting the router to one is almost impossible because how do I dig through the walls to run the cable. And this one can't? asus rt-ac1200g +

hermes-80 · Answer

You think about a network installation when building a house / renovation - and no, then cry - no one who knows the subject will write you - this model and it will work throughout the house - because it's a complete fake.
As far as solutions are concerned, PLC can try to fast between floors.

Wifi is a radio with specific frequencies - the laws of physics do not change over the years - compare analog TV to DVB-T, only the amount of data sent via the same channel has changed, but you still need to have the right range.

sebonieb · Answer

And installing such an amplifier will help?

hermes-80 · Answer

Amplifiers by your assumptions this is the worst you can think of in this situation.

sebonieb · Answer

Now I have a Tp-Link TL-WR543G router, I was able to switch it so that I have the range where I want it, i.e. to the floor where it stands and two floors down, everywhere from 3 lines of wifi and I have a question whether it makes sense to change it for something better, where the internet speed will be better than this, because the range is ok, but if I can speed it up, I have 10mb radio internet

hermes-80 · Answer

WiFi communication is two-way and depends on the router's radio and antennas as well as the end device's radio and antennas. At 10Mb / s, there is no point in investing if you don't do the network correctly, as I wrote above.

Check yourself with a ping how it really is with this network and how much communication breaks down in individual rooms, then you will get a real picture of your network.

sebonieb · Answer

I checked the speedtest application on the phone and on every floor and even a meter next to the router shows ping 172-175 is probably bad, and the download speed increased from 3.5 to 5 and sending is about 1 everywhere. What the problem is, on the computer it shows ping 12 and download speed 8.9 and upload speed 0.91

hermes-80 · Answer

The problem is in the interference and retransmission of packets, therefore the ping increases, and such a standard should be up to 20 by obstacles - without up to 10ms. As I already wrote, wifi is two-way communication - so what if you burn a hole in 3 walls with a router, as a laptop will not even break through the wall.

sebonieb · Answer

What is the best solution? Buy a better router, give it as the main one and the old one as an additional floor below and connect them?

hermes-80 · Answer

It is best to connect them with a network cable and this is how you write - one AP per floor.
Another solution - instead of a cable, PLC adapters but this is a much more expensive solution and the network sockets must be on the same phase, and then APs must be connected to these PLC adapters (which replace the network cable).

m.jastrzebski · Answer

Years fly and the physics inexorably remains the same ...

makosuu · Answer

They do not have to.

hermes-80 · Answer

The amount of throughput one wants to achieve - in different phases is significantly underestimated.

makosuu · Answer

I think that the PLC AV500 would be able to provide it with the appropriate transfer. The bandwidth doesn't drop that much.

sebonieb · Answer

I bought an Asus RT-AC1200G +, I put it on the 1st floor next to the stairs and the range is good on the 1st floor and the ground floor, there is only a strange stability problem, the laptop is 5m from the router and has quite significant speed drops, here the speed within a minute on the cable:

and on wifi:

I have 14 days to return the router, it is quite expensive, so I would like to evaluate it, because it is rather a problem with the router than with the provider, since the speed is constant and there are no drops after the kalbu. So what other / better router do you recommend?

bogiebog · Answer

Show inssider scan 2.x. Use iperf.exe for wifi speed test, - comp1 connect with a cable, turn off the firewall, run iperf.exe -s - comp2 connect via WIFI, run iperf.exe -c ip-address-comp1

sebonieb · Answer

computer1: computer2:

sebap · Answer

Since you have a cable speed of around 10Mb / s, change the channel width to 20MHz, you don't need 40MHz.

bogiebog · Answer

no obstructions / walls / ceilings? no ? try with a laptop in the optical visibility of the router. Show iperf stats.

sebonieb · Answer

I did the test when two laptops stood 50cm from the router

bogiebog · Answer

Try to swap laptops, let the one with the cable do wifi and vice versa.

sebonieb · Answer

But do you think it's a problem with the router or the computer?

bogiebog · Answer

too close not good, 1-2m approx.

sebonieb · Answer

I swapped computers

bogiebog · Answer

Conclusions dear Watson, conclusions? What WIFI card in the wrong laptop? Added after 42 : Get the insider scan from the second laptop.

sebonieb · Answer

This is from the toshiba satellite L755-S5214 computer (here I did a test after replacing computers)

This is a network card from a toshiba satellite P755-S5215 computer (here I did the test first, it was a server)

I measured the speeds on wifi at the same time on both computers, as if what has this problem with the network card is ok, on the other, weaker speed. A strange thing, because sometimes it is good, sometimes poorly with speed ...

bogiebog · Answer

Update to the latest router firmware and WIFI card headsets in laptops.

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