Hello all. I just installed a ring bell camera on my door and now I need a new router. I live in a 3 bedroom apartment and the front door is steel. I had my router and modem next to my PC in one of the bedrooms and had my PC hardwired. The router I'm using is the cheap router I got from my network provider (Optimum). With the router in my bedroom the wifi did not reach the camera outside the door. I also saw that I had no wifi on phone when outside the door.
I moved the modem and router to the living and now it's about 8 feet away from the front door and the camera works fine. The problem now is that my download speed is pretty much cut in half on my PC which is about 20 feet from the router now. I pay for 300MB download speed and now I'm getting 130MB DL. If I go to the living room and do a speedtest on my phone I see 340MB download.
What would you suggest I do? I'm assuming that if I were to get a good standalone router and replace my current one with it then I would get the full download speed on my PC via wifi. Otherwise I could get a mesh router with 2 units and have on hardwired to the PC and one closer to the door for the camera.
I'm also not really sure what to look for in the routers these days lol
I moved the modem and router to the living and now it's about 8 feet away from the front door and the camera works fine. The problem now is that my download speed is pretty much cut in half on my PC which is about 20 feet from the router now. I pay for 300MB download speed and now I'm getting 130MB DL. If I go to the living room and do a speedtest on my phone I see 340MB download.
What would you suggest I do? I'm assuming that if I were to get a good standalone router and replace my current one with it then I would get the full download speed on my PC via wifi. Otherwise I could get a mesh router with 2 units and have on hardwired to the PC and one closer to the door for the camera.
I'm also not really sure what to look for in the routers these days lol