Recent content by gregjar

It really comes down to how dangerous and time-consuming running cable through your crawlspace would be. Bonded MoCA 2.0 (the latest standard available in production equipment) would support 1 Gbps, and since Comcast's approved modems all have interfaces no higher than 1 Gbps (excluding their...

The EX8000 is a range extender (so throughput will be cut unless it consistently negotiates a vacant channel with the main router), while the D-Link AC3200/DIR-890L is underpowered on the DFS channels at no higher than 350 milliwatts. You might consider the ASUS RT-AC3200, since that uniformly...

If you're hooking the AC5300's antenna ports up to cable runs on a 1:1 basis without a splitter, 50 feet shouldn't be problematic. The degradation (attenuation) on 2.4 GHz over 50 feet of RG-6 cable is around 7.9 dB. To compare that to wireless alone (looking at SmallNetBuilder's review of the...

As others have mentioned, meshed range extenders are inefficient, since a star or hub-and-spoke topology of a central router to multiple wired APs minimizes extra network hops and latency. Any extender mesh will create at least a few areas with hidden node interference. The cheaper ones cut...

The challenge seems to be twofold. It's inefficient to send Wi-Fi 300 feet via omnidirectional antennas, and the signal attenuation once inside your house requires its own solution. You could consider pairing outdoor/window-mounted panel antennas, or ideally Yagi directional antennas with 20+...

Just $70? It's still a bit hard to find dual-band signal boosters for that little (talking about amplifiers, rather than range extenders), and you won't know for sure if a range extender can pass enough signal strength through the obstructions in your home until you've already bought one. You...

This is going to be tricky, because you don't own the easement or property between those houses (otherwise, you might have buried an Ethernet cable to solve the problem), you likely don't have line of sight to their router, and the distance is probably pushing 400 feet or more. I assume you'd...

It's unlikely to work, since the EX6200 only transmits at 200 mW and your signal strength will be nearly as low as the noise floor past 50 feet. You should do Wi-Fi over coax, which will eliminate free space path loss and rain fade. Just trench a path and bury a LMR-600 cable connected between...