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What's the best way to provide widespread wireless coverage?  Stronger AP's or lots of repeaters?

Asked by Jsmply in Wireless Networking, Wireless Network Access Points, Wireless Technologies

Hi Everyone,

I've got an area of about 70 square yards that we are trying to provide wireless coverage in.  We already have a basic wireless router, but need to expand the coverage much further.  I've used the Hawking HWREN1 Hi-Gain USB Wireless 300N Range Extender with great success in the past, however, it's only been on range extender.  In this case, we would probably need 3-4 of them.

The project has a budget of about $ 700.  I'm wondering if it's a better idea to just place a repeater every few rooms or if there are better high powered routers/aps that might make more sense to go with?

My concern is how much signal degredation we will get if it have 3 - 4 range extenders daisy chained together.  

Thanks in advance!
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