WIFI Help

[EmersonHart13]

My router is situated at one of my house, the end I am normally in the most. The problem is the garage gets virtually no service.

Here is my not to scale map of my coverage.

My house is about 50x25 and the garage is about 20x20

I am currently using the D-Link Wireless N 600 Mbps Home Cloud App-Enabled Dual-Band Gigabit Router (DIR-826L).

Thoughts on the best way to fix this? Better router, AP, Bridge, Repeater? I am going to move it to a slightly more central location, but I am still unsure if the garage will be covered.

Thanks,

John

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[Eagle]

Move it to central location and retest! You're sure to get better garage coverage if you move it closer to the garage, silly.

 

[EmersonHart13]

That involves rewiring.... I get that part and I am fine with it. Comcast dropped the line at the end of the house which is why it is there. I have a spot about 10 feet towards the garage to put it but after that I run out of hiding spots and 10 feet isn't much.... I don't want it sitting in the middle of my living room. LOL

 

[Bruce Jibboo]

this may help the wifi, move that bad boy, the other option is to have it higher (second floor etc)

 

[EmersonHart13]

I own one.

I wish! No second floor, did that trick at my brothers house.

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

Repeater. I have this one. Works really well.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00TQD2BYK/?tag=tcg21-20

 

[nytebyte]

One simple thing to try is to raise your router up as high as you can.
For example, if it's sitting on a desk, put it up on a high bookshelf instead.
Also, if it has antennas, be sure they're positioned so they're vertical.

This might give you just enough extra so it will work in the garage.

 

[Stink Star]

I converted all the phone lines in my house to network cable and have a switch located where they all come together. So basically where I have my main router is in one corner of the house and I hardwired another router in the opposite corner and haven't looked back since

 

[EmersonHart13]

I converted all the phone lines in my house to network cable and have a switch located where they all come together. So basically where I have my main router is in one corner of the house and I hardwired another router in the opposite corner and haven't looked back since

?

 

[EmersonHart13]

Router moved 25 feet towards the garage. It is now basically centered in the house. I still have craptastic signal on one half of the garage and really slow signal on the other.

Time for plan B. Gotta buy some hardware.

Do we think an AC router would help or should I go with some sort of extender?

 

[BeerOrGasoline]

If this was a Monday, you'd have 60 people in here yelling LINKSYS

 

[Mook]

Ive never had great luck with extenders (thats what she said) but maybe I was just buying the wrong product.

 

[EmersonHart13]

Ive never had great luck with extenders (thats what she said) but maybe I was just buying the wrong product.

Exact same feeling....

 

[EmersonHart13]

If this was a Monday, you'd have 60 people in here yelling LINKSYS

I have always had good luck with them, this dlink was a screaming deal at the time....

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

Router moved 25 feet towards the garage. It is now basically centered in the house. I still have craptastic signal on one half of the garage and really slow signal on the other.

Time for plan B. Gotta buy some hardware.

Do we think an AC router would help or should I go with some sort of extender?

Ac router should help. Plus you can run 5ghz and 2.4ghz.

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

My wireless router is able to get to every aspect of our house, all 3 floors and garage. I think you just need to step up your game. Our house is 2800sq ft, all 3 levels equal square footage


http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BUSDVBQ/?tag=tcg21-20

 

[Eagle]

AC is worth it, IMO. I have one router providing coverage to three floors and the garage... most of the yard as well.

 

[EmersonHart13]

Plus you can run 5ghz and 2.4ghz.

Already doing that

 

[Chester Copperpot]

Buy a Linksys.

 

[Chester Copperpot]

But for realsies...

If you placed the router in the center of your house and the coverage is still shit, you may want to add a repeater router in/near the garage to repeat that signal to the rest of the house/garage/yard.

Or, looking at the router you have, you need to buy a beefier router with external antennae. Those enclosed routers (brand aside as Linksys does the same "UFO" style antenna-less designs) have terrible coverage except inside the house and immediately near it.

 

[EmersonHart13]

But for realsies...

If you placed the router in the center of your house and the coverage is still shit, you may want to add a repeater router in/near the garage to repeat that signal to the rest of the house/garage/yard.

Or, looking at the router you have, you need to buy a beefier router with more external antennae. Those enclosed routers (brand aside as Linksys does the same "UFO" style antenna-less designs) have terrible coverage except inside the house and immediately near it.

My last linksys was ufo and I was disappointed. External antenna for sure

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

Never been a fan of Linksys. I like dlink, buffalo and tplink.

 

[EmersonHart13]

Time to AC router shop

 

[Bruce Jibboo]

AC is worth it, IMO. I have one router providing coverage to three floors and the garage... most of the yard as well.

yup ditto, yet only my cell phone is capable of the AC

at least the coverage is good

 

[Bruce Jibboo]