An AP per room/area, reducing the tx power (beacon range) has been my approach and has scaled very well.   It does require some wires to each AP but I find that paying an electrician to run some quality wiring to things that are to remain stationary has been well worth the cost. 

just my $0.02,
Bob   

On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 1:10 PM, David Lang <david@lang.hm> wrote:
Well, just using the 5GHz DFS channels in 80MHz or 160 MHz wide chunks would be a huge improvement, not many people are using them (yet), and the wide channels let you get a lot of data out at once. If everything is within a good range of the AP, this would work pretty well. If you end up needing multiple APs, or you have many stations, I expect that you will be better off with more APs at lower power, each using different channels.

David Lang




On Thu, 23 Jun 2016, Bob McMahon wrote:

Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 12:55:19 -0700
From: Bob McMahon <bob.mcmahon@broadcom.com>
To: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>
Cc: make-wifi-fast@lists.bufferbloat.net,
    "cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net"
    <cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net>
Subject: Re: [Make-wifi-fast] more well funded attempts showing market demand
    for better wifi


hmm, I'm skeptical.   To use multiple carriers simultaneously is difficult
per RF issues.   Even if that is somehow resolved, to increase throughput
usually requires some form of channel bonding, i.e. needed on both sides,
and brings in issues with preserving frame ordering.  If this is just
channel hopping, that needs coordination between both sides (and isn't
simultaneous, possibly costing more than any potential gain.)   An AP only
solution can use channel switch announcements (CSA) but there is a cost to
those as well.

I guess don't see any break though here and the marketing on the site seems
to indicate something beyond physics, at least the physics that I
understand.  Always willing to learn and be corrected if I'm
misunderstanding things.

Bob

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 10:18 AM, Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 10:03 AM, Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com> wrote:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/portalwifi/portal-turbocharged-wifi?ref=backerkit

"Portal is the first and only router specifically engineered to cut
through and avoid congestion, delivering consistent, high-performance
WiFi with greater coverage throughout your home.

Its proprietary spectrum turbocharger technology provides access to
300% more of the radio airwaves than any other router, improving
performance by as much as 300x, and range and coverage by as much as
2x in crowded settings, such as city homes and multi-unit apartments"

It sounds like they are promising working DFS support.

It's not clear what chipset they are using (they are claiming wave2) -
but they are at least publicly claiming to be using openwrt. So I
threw in enough to order one for september, just so I could comment on
their kickstarter page. :)

I'd have loved to have got in earlier (early shipments are this month
apparently), but those were sold out.


https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/portalwifi/portal-turbocharged-wifi/comments



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