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Any of yall here use a company to setup home network?

Posted on 11/16/22 at 5:37 am
Posted by AFinePilsnerBeer
BRLA
Member since Oct 2021
44 posts
Posted on 11/16/22 at 5:37 am
I know you'll all think I'm a moron but I'm out of ideas here..

Originally had Att with a few wifi extenders throughout the house but it didn't work worth a shite. Ended up with ATT and 5 Google wifi Puck routers and it managed to do fairly well.

Sometime around Google's purchase of Nest, shite got weird. It all migrated to the Google Home framework and everything began running like complete arse.

Today we have Cox Gigablast with 2 of their little pod extenders. I literally have a smart TV in my kids room about 5 feet from the modem that constantly falls off. It's maddening.

Ive come to the conclusion that this house needs a complete networking overhaul. I guess my question is - is there anybody here in town (BR) that does that?
Posted by bluebarracuda
Member since Oct 2011
18840 posts
Posted on 11/16/22 at 7:25 am to
Get an unmanaged POE switch off of Amazon for like $50 ( Like this one) and one (possibly 2 depending on the size of your home) Ubiquiti APs to place in your house.

Will fix all of your issues
This post was edited on 11/16/22 at 7:26 am
Posted by SG_Geaux
Beautiful St George, LA
Member since Aug 2004
79558 posts
Posted on 11/16/22 at 9:02 am to
I have two Ubiquiti APs and have zero Wifi issues.
Posted by mdomingue
Lafayette, LA
Member since Nov 2010
37825 posts
Posted on 11/16/22 at 3:00 pm to
quote:

I have two Ubiquiti APs and have zero Wifi issues.


I have one and 0 issues
Posted by bluebarracuda
Member since Oct 2011
18840 posts
Posted on 11/16/22 at 3:19 pm to
I had an AC Pro for a few years and didn't have any issue. I'm using an Engenius Wifi 6 AP now
Posted by LemmyLives
Texas
Member since Mar 2019
10013 posts
Posted on 11/16/22 at 6:45 pm to
Understand that for three hours of help undoing ATT/Google/Nest/Cox generated problems, you're going to get charged more than $500.

I can probably tell you what equipment you need to buy, of whatever brand you choose, with a floorplan and basic details like where the TVs/Rokus/etc are, where your chimney flue is, type of wall construction, etc, with the promise of a few fine pilsners or dry stouts at some future date. One really important question: Are your extenders *wired* into Cat5 in your house, or is it totally wireless?

Step 1: Buy replacement devices.
Step 2: Rip out everything except for your Cox modem.
Step 3: Plug the first replacement device into the Cox modem.
Step 4: Grant me remote access to the new devices for setup, plugging them in one at a time.
Step 5: Turn off Wifi on the Cox modem.
Step 6: Change the password you just gave me.

"Company provided" shite is almost always at least one generation behind, and they seem to go more for looks than antennae efficacy.

Just don't get sucked into buying business graded equipment at your apparent skill level. While I haven't used Ubiquiti before, their stuff is expensive, and I don't know how novice friendly their interface will be. Even in consumer products, you'll see "gaming" routers from the major companies that the average homeowner would struggle with, but a different product line would be friendly to novices. Can any of you Ubiquiti users comment on ease of use?

Synology just released the WRX560 (mesh router) that uses the SRM (Synology Router Manager) interface, which is nearly exactly the same as the interface I use to run my Synology storage devices. It's very Mac like and pretty. You can get yourself in over your head if you start poking around too much, but otherwise it's a lot cleaner than the default LinkSys/TPLink interfaces on consumer products. I would strongly suggest you go to basic "setting up our product" pages and watch quick videos on the bare minimum that will get you connected. We can get to configuring segregated guest networks and stuff later.

Here are the videos on Synology SRM: LINK
Posted by Gabapentin
Member since Mar 2022
374 posts
Posted on 11/17/22 at 8:57 pm to
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This post was edited on 1/6/23 at 10:20 pm
Posted by BabySam
FL
Member since Oct 2010
1528 posts
Posted on 11/18/22 at 6:24 am to
Unless you just want to rip and replace, seems like running network drops to current pods for wifi coverage (as some have mentioned) would be simplest first step and lowest cost. There are a some really knowledgeable people on here that provide good guidance and firsthand experience with various brands/equipment. Maybe deciding on what path you want to go down, then quick requirements could be identified and have a course of action for you.
Posted by broadhead
Member since Oct 2014
2384 posts
Posted on 11/18/22 at 12:37 pm to
Ubiquiti is cheap, it isn't best buy netgear linksys cheap but it is cheap for what you get.
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