How do I extend Extreme N Wireless Network through Large House?

[psilvia]

Hi All! I am new to this forum, so please be nice! :) We are looking for some help and I am sure we can't be the only people with this challenge, so I am throwing this out for ideas/solutions ...

We live in a large (7000 sq ft) house in Florida. The house is two stories - 14ft ceilings. The construction of the house is Concrete Block (hurricane codes). There is ALSO concrete used as the 'ceiling' of the first floor and the 'floor' of the second floor. Again, the separator between the first and second floors is constructed of concrete and steel. Creates for a strong house, but a lot of signal blockage apparently.

Okay, we have DSL service from AT & T and we have a router coming into an On-Q box on the first floor (On-Q handles all the wiring and switches and stuff for the house in one place.) Attached to the DSL router we have a D-LINK DIR655 Extreme N Wireless Router. The D-LINK router sends out a GREAT signal throughout the first floor of the house, but upstairs the signal is very weak and unreliable.

We are looking for ways to extend or strengthen the signal up to the second floor. So, my question(s) ... Can we simply plug another DLINK DIR655 into the first one and snake a long LAN cable up through the walls and have the second DIR655 sit upstairs somewhere? Is there a repeater tool somewhere that we can use? Totally open to suggestions here. Any and all ideas welcome!

Thanks very much for your help!
Penny

[TonyT]

You can have as many as you want individual access points wired to the main router via cat5. Don't use additional wifi routers, use standalone access points and let the existing router handle the firewalling and dhcp. Give all access points static lan ip addresses and unique ssids. Probably best to run a cat5 upstairs to a switch and plug the AP into it. That will allow for expansion to other areas via wire too.
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[Popa_Mintin]

Take a look at:

www.dynamode.co.uk

Select Corporate Site: LAN Products: and take a look at 'PowerlineHomePlug'

Ok, so this is a UK company, but I'm sure you will find something similar locally once you know what you’re looking for.