So we have started renos on the apartment over our garage, the up side is I get to gut the workshop underneath (part of the garage) and turn it into my man cave. The challenge is networking. The house and garage are separated by about 20 feet (driveway), with about 60 feet between the shop and the placement of my wireless router. Traditionally we've had issues with the wireless signal in the workshop/garage, not strong enough for what I want. So, during the renos I ran a couple of lines under the driveway and now am looking to set it up proper, both for myself and the tenant.
I guess what I'm looking for is essentially a solution that provides strong wireless in the house as well as the garage/apartment while also providing an additional 8-10 hard line options in the garage/apartment I would need. In the house I have an ASUS RT-AC66U router and 24 port switch. That handles all my needs here. For the garage/apartment I was thinking of putting a second wireless router out there and simply chaining them together (not that hard to do right?), however I don't see any wireless routers with 8+ ports on them. Am I looking at a second router/switch combo again?
So essentially the ISP modem in the house to my main Asus wireless router which then feeds my house switch as well as a second wireless router in the garage which in turn feeds a second switch for the garage/apartment?
Is that the solution? What would you guys suggest, networking has never been a strong suite of mine. Thanks.
I guess what I'm looking for is essentially a solution that provides strong wireless in the house as well as the garage/apartment while also providing an additional 8-10 hard line options in the garage/apartment I would need. In the house I have an ASUS RT-AC66U router and 24 port switch. That handles all my needs here. For the garage/apartment I was thinking of putting a second wireless router out there and simply chaining them together (not that hard to do right?), however I don't see any wireless routers with 8+ ports on them. Am I looking at a second router/switch combo again?
So essentially the ISP modem in the house to my main Asus wireless router which then feeds my house switch as well as a second wireless router in the garage which in turn feeds a second switch for the garage/apartment?
Is that the solution? What would you guys suggest, networking has never been a strong suite of mine. Thanks.