I also agree to get a second router to serve as your main wireless
connection. My house was wired with about 10 phone jacks (3 bedroom 2
story), but the wires were in bad shape and DSL wouldn't work, so we
disconnected all but 2 jacks. My wife kept having her printer drop off
network, so I got a second router and ran a 100' cat 6 cable up to the
new router near her computer and printer.
The free router is also probably a low end one. It is best just to use
it to receive the DSL and have a good one for wireless. My wife's
signal is much better - less drops and faster - with my newer Trendnet
router instead of the AT&T free one, even when I moved her laptop to the
same room as the AT&T router.
If you have a chase of some sort, you may be able to get the cable to a
good central location. Since you appear to have some renovations,
hopefully it is easy to at least get up to the second floor.
People say wireless is the future, but I did a balcony replacement and
added some empty conduit from my computer area to my crawlspace in case
I ever needed it. This conduit made it easy to run the cable to the
second modem. If you have walls down, running some empty 3/4" PVC
conduit to empty boxes might be a good idea. You may want to run fiber
in a decade to stream your ultra super duper high def video so you don't
radiate yourself. PCV conduit is cheap and easy to run.
I don't think it is code, but if you have a HVAC duct, that may also be
a place you could run a cable.
Brian
On 9/1/2015 12:50 PM, Scott Hall wrote:
> New house has two options for internet: Frontier DSL and Mediacom coax.
>
> Mediacom wants a $100 'setup' fee and has a usage cap. Yes, I called back
> to make sure it was still 2015 and that I hadn't fallen into a time warp to
> 1989. In Bolivia.
>
> So...DSL it is.
>
> The house--and I'm not making this up--has no working phone jacks in it.
> There were only two in the whole house anyway. This thing was built BEFORE
> phones to begin with, and they never wired the whole thing?
>
> Anyway, they've got to punch a new hole through to the outside and they
> want to do it in the basement. Fair enough, no one will mess with it there.
> Problem: the free modem is also a modem and wifi router, and the guy
> assures me it won't reach to the third floor, where I'm living while I
> destroy the rest of the house.
>
> I'd like to do this once and right. Any advice?
>
> Modem in the basement, wifi routers on each floor for good coverage? Any
> advice on how to set up those routers, or which to get? Ideally I'd use the
> same network ID and could just go from room to room/floor to floor
> seamlessly. I'm willing to tear out walls for wires if I need to. A
> website to peruse would also work if this is too newb to go into.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Scott
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