Repeater / 2nd AP / RelayD?
Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2020 12:05 am
Gargoyle users,
I recently moved my main router (a wrt3200acm) upstairs in my home and now realize that I have poor connectivity downstairs. Ok, I have more routers, what are the choices that are recommended?
Router 1 - Netgear WNDR3700v2 with Gargoyle loaded onto it (same version as what I have upstairs I think)
Router 2 - Ruckus / ZoneFlex 7762-S
I suspect that because the ZoneFlex cannot run Gargoyle, the Netgear is going to be better choice with a specialized configuration to get it to interact nicely with the upstairs Gargoyle router.
Here is a datasheet on it:
http://c541678.r78.cf2.rackcdn.com/data ... series.pdf
The 7762-S is a commercial router made for outdoor mounting and is very weatherproof. It seems that it is powerful enough to provide a "toukhes kicking" level of coverage for my house (indoors and outdoors), so I am reading about this device more to see how I can use it. I need to download all its manuals and also get its firmware updated and see what bridge modes it has. It would be nice to mount this thing out by my pool and get coverage inside and outside my house.
Overall, I do not care if the router downstairs uses a different subnet, but what I do care about is trying to keep all DHCP static IP address assignments managed by the Gargoyle router upstairs (wrt3200acm) with whatever router that is downstairs being a kind of slave router or repeater.
I do have Ethernet over Power (not Power over Ethernet) boxes that can LAN Link the second router downstairs where I want it to have coverage.
What say you?
Stuart
I recently moved my main router (a wrt3200acm) upstairs in my home and now realize that I have poor connectivity downstairs. Ok, I have more routers, what are the choices that are recommended?
Router 1 - Netgear WNDR3700v2 with Gargoyle loaded onto it (same version as what I have upstairs I think)
Router 2 - Ruckus / ZoneFlex 7762-S
I suspect that because the ZoneFlex cannot run Gargoyle, the Netgear is going to be better choice with a specialized configuration to get it to interact nicely with the upstairs Gargoyle router.
Here is a datasheet on it:
http://c541678.r78.cf2.rackcdn.com/data ... series.pdf
The 7762-S is a commercial router made for outdoor mounting and is very weatherproof. It seems that it is powerful enough to provide a "toukhes kicking" level of coverage for my house (indoors and outdoors), so I am reading about this device more to see how I can use it. I need to download all its manuals and also get its firmware updated and see what bridge modes it has. It would be nice to mount this thing out by my pool and get coverage inside and outside my house.
Overall, I do not care if the router downstairs uses a different subnet, but what I do care about is trying to keep all DHCP static IP address assignments managed by the Gargoyle router upstairs (wrt3200acm) with whatever router that is downstairs being a kind of slave router or repeater.
I do have Ethernet over Power (not Power over Ethernet) boxes that can LAN Link the second router downstairs where I want it to have coverage.
What say you?
Stuart