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Help me get wifi to they other end of the apartment (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My router is in the living room since that's where I need my wired connections. But the living room is all the way on one end of the apartment. There's no wifi in the dining room/office and it's spotty in the kitchen. We've tried a wifi extender but that doesn't really work. I was wondering if something like the TP-Link TL-WPA8631P powerline kit would be a good solution. I would place the other end in the the dining room. Would it provide wifi to areas that normally have no coverage?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I had your exact same problem in my old brick house that is hard to cable and not so great for wifi range. More powerful wifi wont add much as the wifi power is all limited to what the connecting device can also send back, and that wont change. You need to re-shape the wifi coverage of your home.

I run a second router configured as a dumb access point that shares the same SSID, and the connection between runs over a powerline type extender. You device will shoose the best signal to attched to automatically. Another option is mesh networking products.

google dumb access point to get started..