The WiFi in my bedroom tends to die a lot (devices will still be connected but won’t be able to access online functions) so I was looking for a way to extend/boost my WiFi’s signal in my bedroom.
My Xfinity gateway has an thernet cable connected to it that I’ve ran up to my bedroom, with said cable currently being connected to an unmanaged switch that has plently of open ports (the only used ones are connected to my PC and Xbox). Am I correct in saying I can just buy a wireless access point of Amazon, connect it to the switch, and boom, better WiFi in my bedroom?
Essentially I’m just trying to figure out what I need to connect to the switch in my bedroom to make the WiFi better in there. Considering I’m a second year cybersecurity student, I should probably know all of this by now, but I’m not the sharpest shed in the tool. Any and all help or advice is greatly appreciated!
Should work like you’re outlining in principle, but client roaming between different brands of access points can be spotty in my experience, which can result in an occasional brief disruption for them. Usually manifests as a simple ‘connected’ -> ‘disconnected’ -> ‘connected’ status change.
Outside of that one annoyance, it should just work as long as the ssid is configured the same in both platforms.