I live in a very long and narrow house, about 2,100 square feet, and in a very congested neighborhood (I can pickup 28 wireless networks just on my phone).
I'm on a 100Mb/s plan, however when upstairs and at the side of my house opposite my router (where I will spend most of my time), and when I'm connected to my wireless extender, I get about 3Mb/s.
There are ten devices connected to the router issued to us by our ISP (which is a bad, single-band router/modem combo, as expected. Thank you Bend Broadband) or to our extender. Two devices will be playing online games at the side of the house opposite the router or streaming movies, and two other devices will be streaming movies.
Unfortunately I can't move my router to a central location, it needs to be downstairs and located at one end of my long, narrow house, because there are no ports for it to connect to anywhere else. I have tried powerline adapters, and sadly they do not function very well with the wiring of my house.
I was thinking maybe a D-Link AC3200 or a Netgear Nighthawk X6S AC3000, but I worry that it's either overkill (especially for a 100Mb/s plan) or that it still won't output a strong enough signal.
Finally, would it be a good idea to use the modem/router combo that we have now as just a modem?
I'm on a 100Mb/s plan, however when upstairs and at the side of my house opposite my router (where I will spend most of my time), and when I'm connected to my wireless extender, I get about 3Mb/s.
There are ten devices connected to the router issued to us by our ISP (which is a bad, single-band router/modem combo, as expected. Thank you Bend Broadband) or to our extender. Two devices will be playing online games at the side of the house opposite the router or streaming movies, and two other devices will be streaming movies.
Unfortunately I can't move my router to a central location, it needs to be downstairs and located at one end of my long, narrow house, because there are no ports for it to connect to anywhere else. I have tried powerline adapters, and sadly they do not function very well with the wiring of my house.
I was thinking maybe a D-Link AC3200 or a Netgear Nighthawk X6S AC3000, but I worry that it's either overkill (especially for a 100Mb/s plan) or that it still won't output a strong enough signal.
Finally, would it be a good idea to use the modem/router combo that we have now as just a modem?