Station AP on 2.4Ghz & WDS on 5Ghz on both routers at the same time

RouterOS Wireless Networking
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hello routerboard guru’s,

As the topic suggests, I am searching for advice on the right hardware to buy to replace an existing badly performing wifi extender setup. I would want to be able to plug one router next to the cable modem ethernet port which will bridge Internet connectivity to the wlan if on 2.4g for cli device connections and also to a wds-bridge on 5g that will connect to antoher router at the other end of the house doing the same, wds-bridge on 5g and wlan if on 2.4g for cli connections.

Are the dual band RB951G-2HnD sufficient for setting this up? Would the same setup be possible with one 2HnD and one or two or the less expensive RB941-2nD-TC, or not because of these are not dual band capable?

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You can use something like this:
http://routerboard.com/RB962UiGS-5HacT2HnT

But note that 5g is worse in wall penetration than 2g.

Sure you can use a cascade of four hap lites. Just use very distant frequency for the bridge to prevent interference.

Anyway, it is much better to use all as Ap and run wires to them.

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would similar setup be possible with the lite model? i won’t need the gigabit throughput or the sfp cage for fibre interconnection with another router so that could almost half the cost of the station ap broadcasting as wds to the other routers
http://routerboard.com/RB952Ui-5ac2nD

i wasn’t aware that 5g was particularly less effective than 2.4g at wall penetration so thank you for that tip, from my research i had gathered that the throughput and channel congention in areas with a lot of 2.4g channel networks is typically lesser populated because of the main use of 2.4g in consumer devices

so with a RB952Ui-5ac2nD i would need 2 of these, wds on the 2.4g channel for more effective wall penetration and wlan on the 5g channel. the reason i wanted to use the 5g chan for wds is because of compatibility for wlan connection on the 2.4g channel without having to upgrade the cli devices with 5g adapters to connect on that channel

or with 4 of the hap lite, 2 at each point

I agree that running ethernet down the walls and using poe would be preffered however the house doesn’t allow for such easy access to run these as it is not being installed into a newly built house

thank you for the tip’s, i would have overlooked that point completely!

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If the house has cable TV running to the “other end of the house”, you can use Hirschmann MoCA set to convert Ethernet to cable signal, and back, with almost dedicated speeds up to 170 Mbps.