I have been put in charge of sorting out the network at home and my mums work will pay for any networking equipment we need. I have decided to scrap our current solution as it has been cobbled together over the years to meet changing needs. Unfortunately, I'm not that big on wireless networks and my uni course is pretty intense at the moment. I think I have a solution from the brief research I have done but I was hoping to get some feedback.
Before I start I should say we have a house with 3 floors. 4 computers are on the top floor and 1 on the middle floor that are all part of the wired lan. My mum wants wireless access over the whole house and it would be a bonus to get it in to the garden. We do have a wireless router on the middle floor at the moment but the coverage is pretty bad.
I was thinking the best thing to do would be to get a wired router with inbuilt switch. To this I would connect an access point that would cover the top floor. Then a cable would run down to the middle floor to a switch. To this there will be another access point that will give coverage to the middle floor. Finally, another wire would run down to a third access point that would give coverage to the ground floor and garden.
I was thinking I could get a wireless router but I think I read somewhere it was best not to. However, that could have been to do with a completely different issue involving a completely wireless network with no wired backbone.
I already have a switch that I can use and I was thinking of getting the Netgear DG843 (I have one at uni and it's great). As for wireless access points I haven't looked in to the best models yet. Someone did suggest the Netgear WG602 though. Can anyone recommend anything better? Ideally I would like access points that supports the Gameboy DS but that would just be a bonus