New build WIFI AP placement

k1w1k1d:

Ray, how would this work for the bedrooms?

Prewire to the ceiling of all three bedrooms and put an AP in the centre bedroom. The master and first bedroom would be one wall away. If no kids, put the AP in master bedroom.

Looking at the house plan, could you move the two bedroom doors to be next to each other and have two hall closets, instead of one long one? Might help to muffle toilet flushing sound into the first bedroom?

You got me thinking and now ive gone off on a tangent.

From a cost perspective, I dont usually install the APs in bedrooms unless we are doing in-wall faceplate units.

However on more than one occasion I have had a customer decline a structured cabling / whole-house wifi quote during the build with no attic in the design because they were being cheap, only for it to bite me in the ass when they sell to a family a couple of years later. They then blame us (the isp) because they perceive our service to be crap when its actually the internal reticulation at fault. So we have been known to quietly run a couple of extra cables and make notes/measurements so if we need to install an AP later, we can offer a solution and can cut into the wall to dig out the cabling in the future for an extra AP.

Anyhow as a standard, we typically just put APs in the hallway and lounge areas, not in the bedrooms unless they are in-wall faceplates. We still run a data cable for an outlet under a desk and to a wall mounted tv in each bedroom (with a coax). If 60ghz ever takes off in the future, then we can use an in-wall faceplate behind the tv or under the desk in the bedrooms.

Regarding rearranging walls and doors, Toilet and shower privacy is always a concern so I am a fan of insulating the internal walls well for sound proofing or having a second wall between the bathroom and bedrooms/living space.

For the closets, I am thinking having the rooms larger might be better so do something like this instead.

I want to remove one of the hallway linen closets since the bedroom closets are so large, but cant figure out a way to do it. I like this layout better with a split wall to make two closets as although it does make the middle bedroom closets slightly smaller, the hallway linen closets make up for it. I believe larger more spacious rooms have better resale value. Too many houses are built now with matchbox sized rooms which you cant fit a queen bed into comfortably with a desk and dresser (like one of the bedrooms in my flat which is hard to keep occupied). I havent looked at the measurements of the rooms in this design but this is what i'd do. Could also make the laundry room smaller and part of the garage to make the fourth bedroom larger too.

In this house layout, I'd just go with three APs - one at each end of the hallway and one the lounge. Along with a data outlet behind the wall mounted tv in each bedroom and on the wall for a gaming desk for future wall-plate APs if 60ghz ever becomes a thing.

The middle bedroom as the OP designed it would probably be breaking the 1-wall rule however I would feel comfortable as I still think they would still get a great experience, noting that most other devices in the house would easily be offloaded from 2ghz on to 5ghz wifi being only one wall away. If it ever did become a problem then an in-wall unit can easily be installed in the middle bedroom but i doubt it would need it in the near future.

k1w1k1d

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