Wi-fi in a big house - what to buy?

Question

WiFi

Good day!
The essence is this: the house is 450 sq.m, 4 floors. Himself in this business delitant. I wish Wi-Fi was in every corner of the house + in a small area.
How to build a network? What accessories are needed for this?
Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

1. Wherever you can lay a cable, I would advise you to lay a cable and make gigabit there (hanging TVs, all wifi access points, stationary computers, the table where the laptop will most often be, so that there is a wire that is plugged in and ready.
At my house gigabit between computers, and it's just gorgeous when a standard movie up to 1.5 GB is copied in seconds and not in minutes
. Therefore, it is better that wifi points are connected by ethernet, but provide a single seamless network, for example:
habrahabr.ru/post/185138
Is it possible to set up a single Wi-Fi network with seamless roaming on access points with OpenWRT?
ekbit.ru/big_wifi
ab-log.ru/smart-house/wireless/unifi

Answer 2

The easiest thing to set up is special points from Ubiquiti.
The most budgetary and reliable -Mikrotik (RB + 4 AP)
I used both that and that for organizing an office network. Naturally, all access points are wired.
TP-Link, ASUS, Dlink - strictly fuck, especially budget models. And of course no repeaters - NO.

Answer 3

you need a good router + several wi-fi repeaters with good antennas, 1 pc for each floor
, they work according to this principle

Answer 4

I live in a three-story country house. Router ASUS RT-N18U. It stands at the very top, Wi-Fi is available anywhere in the house. Catches even outside the house. On the old TP-Link TL-WR1043ND it was worse: it didn’t catch outside the house at all.
Keep in mind that wi-fi antennas distribute a signal in the form of a ball. In your case, if the layout allows, it is best to put the router on the 2nd floor. And preferably in the center of the second floor :)
I did not experiment with repeaters and others.
If you want a stable connection, forget about TP-Link and D-Link. I can’t say for Zyxel, it seems to work well for neighbors. I'm just a fan of Asus. Lots of settings out of the box, powerful, stable.
I've seen Mikrotik twice. Both times were bad experiences. They stand in two cafes, everywhere CONSTANT problems with the connection. I don’t know, maybe the person who set them up is crooked ... But for some reason now I don’t even want to think about mikrotiks, and they are also more expensive than the same asus.
Ubiquiti for me is some kind of nonsense for exorbitant money.