re: Extended Wifi

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CAD's devices when hooked up to 5ghz (the ones that support it) SCREAM by comparision.

Most of CAD's devices are 'n' at best..the nexus 5 (and maybe nexus 4) devices are AC.

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1) When you go as far away from the 5GHz connection (or out of where you can actually see it...through 1 wall even) as you can and still catch it, how does it compare to the 2.4?

2) how many devices are concurrently on the 2.4 GHz network vs the 5?


5 definitely has more available bandwidth and better performance on paper in line of sight (same room, can draw line from device to router without hitting anything). It suffers in terms of range and ability to go through walls (same reason that infrared can be seen through a wall, but red, green, and purple cannot...they're all just colors. Long wavelengths "bend" around physical objects better than shorter ones. When talking about frequencies (2.4 GHz and 5 GHz, the higher frequency corresponds to the shorter wavelength).


You could get better results with 2 more AC routers identical to what you've got. But it's probably not worth it once you move congestion off the main router and add the ability to use PoE, letting you run 1 ethernet cable anywhere and being independent of an power cord.