worst case is a lot more than a hundred bucks
should their actual situation be that bad
they got a cheap low end router
no extenders or testing for interference
can that be made to work like you say?
maybe proper set up and deployment of what they have would work
or maybe they need more gear to reach the distances they have through walls and hallways
or maybe they need different gear due to interference issues
but that still leaves them with the issues of HOW they procure things
as noted in my reply above to Mr Oldschool’s post which has since been deleted
I have no idea what happened to my post. I had written a response to @volunteer and I think I was editing a typo and all of a sudden my text window shut down and my rather lengthy reply was gone. I didn’t think I had hit any kind of delete post button, and if I did, those thing are supposed to have a safety where they confirm you want to delete.
Anyway, I agree that it doesn’t appear that there was a very good job done in clearly specifying what it needed to do. I wasn’t involved in that. Taking the iPad down the hall is me pushing the limits to see how far they will go, it was never designed in. The router’s dropouts are the key problem at this point.
At today’s rehearsal, I was able to get into the router’s setup and poke around. Whoever initially set it up had turned the 5G off entirely. Netgear doesn’t have the most intuitive interface, but I was eventually able to get it turned on and logged into it with the iPad. How it will work on Sunday remains to be seen, but we are able to use the 5G range. I haven’t made it go stealth yet because I didn’t have time to walk everybody through getting set up on it, so I’m going to do this in steps until the results are satisfactory.
One concern I have is that some of our internet routers are also set on 5G, so there may be interference anyway(?) I think I should be able to talk to our volunteer that works on our network equipment about specifying non-competing channels to set them at. Does that sound right, or am I over-simplifying what can be done?
Sounds like your making progress!
In the router I would turn off the 2.4 broadcast.
Did you set a different SSID name for the 5g broadcast?
At least the last time I looked there were no WIFI scanner apps for IOS.
Find someone with an Andriod phone or tablet and download a WIFI scanner app
that shows the area WIFI networks, signal strength and the channel they are
broadcasting on.
I use one called WIFI Analyzer and a Netgear WIFI scanner app.
Use something like those to scan the area and note what 5g channels
are in use.
I have the best results using the higher 5g channels.
I will likely turn off the 2.4 next, but I would have had to interrupt the musicians at their practice to effect that switch last night. At the end of the night I was able to make sure they all could access it.
My phone is Android, so I can look up those analyzer apps.
Thanks for your help. I will post back here as I make progress with this.
I would get the 2.4 turned off as soon as possible.
Get everyone connected to the 5ghz SSID and then hide the SSID name broadcast and
it should still be on there devices WIFI list.
Don’t change the name.