| Just add extra base stations! There's little need to add power amplifiers or repeaters and even less reason to knock down walls with chicken wire just because they block WiFi.
Just install some extra access points, set them all to the same SSID, connect them to a common Ethernet switch, and you'll have a nice little intra-home cellular network. Your laptop will automatically select the strongest access point and the Ethernet switch will do the right thing too.
If your access points have built-in routers, use at most only one of them for your outside connection (cable or DSL modem). Do not interconnect them with their "network" jacks. Interconnect them only with their LAN-side jacks, either with direct Cat 5/6 cables or in a star topology to a central switch. |
