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koenigseggccr
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Cap2n extended home network

Fri Dec 18, 2015 2:39 am

Hi!

I'm very new in mikrotik setup but I've bought 3 new cap2n so I could extend my home network. Here is the situation:
On second floor of my house I have a Cisco router (from ISP) but the wifi signal only reaches to the first floor. I wish to somehow "bridge"
Cisco -> cAP1 (2nd floor)
cAP1 -> cAP2 (1st floor)
cAP2 -> cAP3 (ground floor)

so I could have wifi signal in the whole house.

What is the easiest way to do this?

Thank you in advance!

Nikola
 
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Re: Cap2n extended home network

Sat Dec 19, 2015 1:04 pm

Use powerline adaptors?

If you want to bridge cAP1 to the Cisco, the Cisco will need to support WDS. Generally speaking, WDS throughput halves per-hop [if you're using single-radio devices] so by the time you've done three hops, performance is going to suck. And that's without considering that, with single-radio devices, everything is going to be on the same channel!
 
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Re: Cap2n extended home network

Thu Jan 14, 2016 2:36 am

Thanks for your reply.
I've tried with powerline adapters but I can get the connection between ground and first floor, and nothing more. I have no idea how to get to all floors...

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