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neidu3@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I’ve called you me to call include that whenever there is a home network issue nginx issue, the solution is to avoid consumer grade hardware as much as possible. This usually takes care of having to reboot routers and access points every few days.
What I’d do in your case:
- Turn off wifi on router. But I nus points if you can just set it to bridge mode and supply your own router, but that’s a bit beyond most people. Just disabling wifi will do for now.
- run cables from your router locations to the AP1 and AP2 location, so that you can avoid daisy chaining any access points.
- Get a small PoE switch. “Any” will do.
- Get three PoE access points and install them, one next to the router, one in the ap1 location, and one in the ap2 location.
- Be sure to not set them up on the same channel. Same SSID and password, but didn’t fderent channel: 1, 6, and 11 is usually a pretty solid choice if there aren’t external factors affecting thos
tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
This is the right approach.
I personally use UniFi 6 dishes for my APs, and am never going back to “consumer”.
A note unsaid: typically these also handle band steering and roaming awareness. This means that you can walk from one AP to another and they will connect you seamlessly without fighting over who is stronger, and will adapt to prevent collisions.
Not sure about Aruba (almost guaranteed they have the same), but you want the options to deploy a Wifi config universally across your house, with each member being aware of and cooperating with the others. In UniFi case, they will occasionally scan the spectrum and auto assign the channels for what is least crowded in the range. The group automatically avoids each other during this process and it’s beautiful.
bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Yup, I have my Unifi gear for the automated allocation like you said, though I think pretty much every SOHO manufacturer does this to some degree these days.
neidu3@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Yup, I’ve seen those features in some of the models - an AP will hand off a client to a different AP automagically as necessary.