Mesh network advice?

[Toothless]

So a buddy of mine wants to do mesh networking for his house. It's a two story 2500 square foot house and has a decently big backyard that he wants to have range there too. We're looking at the Google mesh thingy for his house since he has the Netgear N900 that does a decent job but he needs more range. The office is pretty much on one side so obviously the range needs to hit a good distance to get outside and to the upstairs. It's a solid house for sure.


Any suggestions? Powerline isn't an option and the entire house is more of a "smart house" of wifi.

 

[Aquinus]

https://unifi-mesh.ubnt.com/

 

[Toothless]

https://unifi-mesh.ubnt.com/

That looks like a good idea as the house is wired correctly for that, like having the router in the wall and outputs on all rooms but would it all stay on a single network?

 

[Aquinus]

That looks like a good idea as the house is wired correctly for that, like having the router in the wall and outputs on all rooms but would it all stay on a single network?

Yeah, Ubiquity is pretty good about devices roaming between access points but, they all have to be ubiquity devices.

 

[Toothless]

Yeah, Ubiquity is pretty good about devices roaming between access points but, they all have to be ubiquity devices.

Including router?

 

[Aquinus]

Including router?

All of the wifi enabled devices would need to be Ubiquity. You don't need to get their router but, you can't expect it to do wifi handoff seamlessly with an AP that's not using their software. If you have the money, going 100% Ubiquity will make it relatively easy to manage the entire thing but, there is that cost associated with having their devices. It's not insanely priced but, it depends on how important it is to you. If you're willing to pay for it, you might as well do it right.

 

[Toothless]

All of the wifi enabled devices would need to be Ubiquity. You don't need to get their router but, you can't expect it to do wifi handoff seamlessly with an AP that's not using their software. If you have the money, going 100% Ubiquity will make it relatively easy to manage the entire thing but, there is that cost associated with having their devices. It's not insanely priced but, it depends on how important it is to you. If you're willing to pay for it, you might as well do it right.

He's pretty happy with his Netgear N900 so far, and already has two other routers making a fourth not too uh... not looking forward to that.

Is there something else that would work?

 

[hat]

Nobody else is responding so...

Why can't you just get some APs and use them as repeaters?

 

[Athlon2K15]

Yeah just get APs

 

[niko084]

Ubiquiti makes good stuff, I've been using it for years...
I've used these units to mesh buildings, groups of buildings, storage yards, and camp grounds.


You can just use about any standard AP but most wont do seamless hand-off.

At home (because the price was right) I'm using Linksys Velop, which has proven to be good as well.

 

[remixedcat]

wire in APs and use one of those 3 packs they are like 120 for 2 or 150-180 for 3 or somethin like that. very cheap and all you need is the controller software on your pc or the cloud key, then you get seemles roaming and great tools. Even RF tools. there's even floormap stuff as well. Great software. You willneed to either get their toughswitch 8s to power the aps as well or be prepared to need to use their injectors or the converters to convert 802.3at/af to their passive 24v.

 

[Konceptz]

If you don't want to go the mesh route, just get two Ubiquiti UAP-AC-Pros and connect them to your current router(turn wireless on the Netgear off). They will function together and hand off properly as long as they are on the same network. I've deployed over 100 of their APs in various environments and the only thing I've found better is the Cisco Meraki line but those are $1,000s more.