My friend , let's nake him CC, recently rented a room in an apartment. Rooms 1-4 are other tenants. There is wifi in the apartment, located next to the entrance labeled A
He and his companion OL stays in room 5. The wifi signal is only decent when they leave the room door open. But they prefer to keep the door closed for privacy. That when the wifi signal dips and becomes unbearably slow.
Any ideas how to "boost" the wifi signal/performance without modifying or touch the WiFi router at point A?
I was thinking of "hanging" a wifi receiver on the side of the door that faces the landlord's wifi router at the entrance, run the cable between the gaps between the door and the door frame and into the room, and connect an AP to broadcast the wifi signal received from the landlord's wifi router. Any advice on this thinking of mine?
Their rental least is 1year, so nothing permanent and easily disassembled would be great.
At first I was thinking of recommending them using a pair of powerline adaptor from one end to the other, but seeing that the apartment isn't that new, I reckon the electrical wireing is less then suitable.
In sort, how to "pickup" the signal from wifi router at "Point A" and broadcast in "Room B" it may or many not be using the same ssid of the landlord's wifi router that's broadcasted.
Something like: Wifi Router @ Point A -------------> wifi receiver ----------> wifi router/AP in room 5/point B
What will I need in all for the setup I'm thinking of.
I know people will shit on me for saying this but setting up an old router (say an Asus ac68u or ac66u) in wireless repeater mode using the 5GHz band for backhaul works wonders when you don’t need super fast speeds. And you should still be able to get fast speeds (though higher latency) in your room.
I’ve done this and can still accomplish up to 300 Mbps with a relatively low latency. It all really depends on the circumstances (and especially the main router)