Wireless solution for low reception

[xxElToroxx]

Hello Community,

I recently moved to a new place. The Router is in the basement and my room is on the second floor. I get very low signal and it usually drops every once in a while.

Now, the complication is that I can't move the router from where it currently is, and I have about 4 devices that I need to wirelessly connect.

Luckily enough, I have one ethernet cable connected directly from the basement to my room. I was wondering what you guys advised me to do.

I was personally thinking of getting a repeater or an extender. But the Repeater would be expensive and an extender could create lag and port issued due to the creation of a secondary network.

Please help me find a solution. Thank you very much for the support; I appreciate the community.

Thank you!

 

[subasteve5800]

The only options I can think of to extend your wireless range are A.) Get a new router with better range or B.) Get a repeater/range extender.

If you don't need to connect wirelessly, you could look into powerline networking which turns your electrical sockets into ethernet ports.

Other than that there isn't much you can do.

 

[jayambroziak]

Personally, I would get a a router and set it up as a secondary access point. If you turn of the DHCP settings in this router, it will let the router in the basement hand out the network identification (ip addresses) and use the router up on the second floor as a network switch and access point. This eliminates the "second network" issues that you mentioned.

 

[bill001g]

Not sure what you mean by the repeater and extender they almost always mean the same thing.

Since you have ethernet cable unlike most people who ask this question it is as simple as putting a AP on the ethernet cable. If you follow the sticky on this forum you can pretty much use any router as a AP. Cabling APs back to a central location is the most common design for providing wireless in a area to large to be served by a single device. Almost every corporate wireless lan is installed this way.

 

[xxElToroxx]

Thank you everyone for your solutions. I will get a router and utilize it as an AP by using my ethernet cable. It will do 😛 Hopefully it goes well and I will update if anything. Thank you!