I currently have an AT&T connection at the 1st floor of my house but the sgnal does not cover the entire house. Builder did have a drop at the first floor where I have a small switch connnected to and have all my equipment, TV, .. connected.
My goal is to extend the signal of my wifi buy instaling a nother Wifi Access point on the first flow connected to the bottom swith with the same SSID and password.
so my question is can I use my Wireless Merak MR as a Wifi repeater in order to cover the first floor while the ATT wifi is covering the first floor ?
if yes how would I get this done ?
To be clear; a Meraki AP will only mesh with another Meraki AP.
Are you really don't dont' use to use repeaters. Everytime you use a repeater you loose at least 50% of the throughput.
I would consider using a powerline adaptor like @NolanHerring suggests. Note that the actual throughput is usually 10% of the "speed" advertised. So a 1Gb/s power line adaptor usually has 100Mb/s of throughput in good circumstances.
I had had good luck using the Dlink series.
here is the desgin for the project. So you means I can not have an AT&T regulare home wireles router mesh with a muraki AP on and make this either a second SSID different from the upper one or the same and make sure I can have internet as the second floor ?
I did make this work using an old cisco AP but the singla is week - SO i though I might be having a lot of chance using a muraki AP. please advise if this is possible or not.
I will be open to a Webex session if you want.
Hello, Nolan-
I have used power link in the past but the signal is still weak.
reason why I am using a Enterprises soluttion.
please advise.
You confused @NolanHerring and @PhilipDAth by using the word "repeater".
You're actually just deploying an extra AP with the same SSID as your AT&T router. That's easy to do. Just define the SSID in your Meraki dashboard and configure it identically to your AT&T one. This has some basic info:
You can leave channel assignment to auto or manually configure a different channel so the two APs don't collide with each other:
Also make sure if you use bridge mode that you disable DHCP on one of the devices:
Dear Brech-
Thank you for the update - will do and keep you updated.