topic Turn OFF 802.11b radio. in Wireless

How to create a wireless network for a large house?

carterturner — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 14:23:49 GMT

Can somebody explain the best way (which will give best performance) to set up a wifi network across a large house?

If money were almost no object, how would one set it up so that you could get a strong wifi signal in every room from the basement to the attic? (preferably while staying on the same wifi network device video eg. so that it doesn't require any skill on the part of the user to change networks etc.) The goal being to be able to watch streaming video in any room on an iPad/iPhone etc.

I am eager to learn how this is done!

Thx

Turn OFF 802.11b radio.

Leo Laohoo — Sat, 22 Jul 2017 13:12:45 GMT

Turn OFF 802.11b radio.

If money's no object, then put an AP in every room. And turn OFF the bloody 802.11b radio!

If money were almost no

Rasika Nayanajith — Sat, 22 Jul 2017 21:40:15 GMT

If money were almost no object, how would one set it up so that you could get a strong wifi signal in every room from the basement to the attic?

If it is a large house, then you may need to install more than 1 AP. (depend on the signal propagation through your building materials). If you are construction stage of your house, I would install data points (cat 6 cabling) to each bed rooms/ common area that you require WiFi signals strongly from the your home DSL/Internet entry point.

Assuming your Home DSL/Internet modem got many wired ports, then you can connect those AP to your internet modem for connectivity.

If you are using Cisco autonomous AP (eg 1142, 3502 that you can find cheaply on 2nd hand market), you can have basic config like this across all your APs

conf t
hostname <AP_HOSTNAME>
!
dot11 ssid <SSID_NAME>
 authentication open
 authentication key-management wpa version 2
 guest-mode
 wpa-psk ascii <SSID_PASSWORD>
!
interface Dot11Radio0
 encryption mode ciphers aes-ccm
 ssid <SSID_NAME>
 no shutdown
!
interface Dot11Radio1
 channel width 40-above
 encryption mode ciphers aes-ccm
 ssid <SSID_NAME>
 no shutdown
!
interface BVI1
 ip address dhcp
!
end
write memory

As Leo said, you can turn off 2.4GHz (radio 0), if you want to have higher performance/throughput for your video services.

HTH

Rasika

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