[SOLVED] Home networking in an apartment complex unit

[boygnog]

Hi all,

Quick noob question. We live in an apartment complex and in our unit, the patch panel is in one of the bedroom closets. There's ethernet hookups in all rooms. Traditionally I've always had the modem stuffed into the patch panel, then connected to the router, with patch cables running into the board in the patch panel that connects to all the rooms. Only issue sometimes is the router's signal is weaker further away from the patch panel since it's stuffed in the closet.

I'd basically like to get stronger wifi signal in further reaches of the apartment. Is there a way to have the router be in the living room? Can the modem hook up to a switch and then have patch cables going into the board from a swtich, and have a router connected to an ethernet outlet in another room?

Thanks for any advice!

 

[SamirD]

You really need your router and modem in the same place. If your modem is cable, then it is pretty easy--just put the modem and router outside in the living room and plug the router lan into the ethernet port and put a switch in the panel with all the ports plugged in.

 

[RealBeast]

If the modem must be in the closet, I would just place the router there and add an access point using Ethernet to the area with the worst wireless signal. Just coordinate wireless channels so that they are not the same.