topic connecting 6 APs in Wireless

connecting 6 APs

fb_webuser — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 05:29:39 GMT

connecting 6 cisco access points 1 to another by wireless, with a good range, what is the best thing to do?

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Re: connecting 6 APs

Scott Fella — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 11:15:58 GMT

If your talking about repeater mode... No way. Even with mesh, that's too many hops. Repeaters cut the throughput in half from each hop. Even just one repeater you can tell the performance degradation.

Cable each one if possible.

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connecting 6 APs

fb_webuser — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 20:40:33 GMT

but if it was not possible at all to connect cables, and i want to cover all the site by wireless, what solution do you suggest? thank you

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connecting 6 APs

Leo Laohoo — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 22:11:46 GMT

and i want to cover all the site by wireless,

Please elaborate further.

NOTE: My doctor has taken away my "I-can-read-your-mind" medication.

connecting 6 APs

fb_webuser — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 06:40:16 GMT

okay , the situation is: I have a project, for a 4 floors villa, the area of each floor is 300 m^2. I have only 1 DSL connection. Note that, we can't connect any cable. What is the solution for this situation. thank you for your efforts

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connecting 6 APs

Leo Laohoo — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 06:48:21 GMT

You're almost there.

Explain the floor layout (per floor).

How many floors do you want wireless coverage?

What is the structure and floors made out of? Wood? Concrete? Pre-fab? Steel i-beam? Kryptonite?

What's your budget?

connecting 6 APs

Scott O'Brien — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 07:51:14 GMT

Are the AP's connecting back to a controller? how many users do they expect?

"we can't connect any cable" im guessing thats meant to say you cannot run any cable.

so is the first AP connecting directly to the router?

connecting 6 APs

fb_webuser — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 08:14:10 GMT

hi. The floor layout is concrete. I will put 2 for each floor. budget is around 1500 $.

and scott, the first access point is connected directly to the router with a cable. but after that everything will be by wireless

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Re: connecting 6 APs

Scott Fella — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 10:49:05 GMT

It's not going to work... The only way I would design this is to run cables to each floor, in which they would have to core through each floor. Usually buildings have these vertical risers so you can do this.

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