Wifi extender

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DennistheMenace

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With Rogers. Modem is in my home office which is in the basement. Signal is not great in other areas of house, ranging from OK to poor. Raised bungalow about 2500 sq ft.
Thoughts on best extender for house? Something simple. Not a techie.
 
DennistheMenace said:
With Rogers. Modem is in my home office which is in the basement. Signal is not great in other areas of house, ranging from OK to poor. Raised bungalow about 2500 sq ft.
Thoughts on best extender for house? Something simple. Not a techie.
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Don't know what to tell ya. I don't have a big house, 1 1/2 story, and my modem was in the basement. I had no trouble with signal anywhere in the house including upstairs. I moved it to the main floor so I could hardwire my android box directly to it. I don't have Rogers or Bell. Hate them both.
 
The Rogers modem/wifi boxes tend to be crap in my experience. When I had Rogers I plugged in a good wifi router to the Rogers box and connected through that. Got better coverage and a more reliable connection.
 
My wifi router is about 4 years old. Is it still reliable as I haven't used it for 4 years.
 
I did a great deal of research to get to my current set up.

I have a 2300ft one level Frank Lloyd Wright like design with block walls that Wi-Fi doesn't like going through.

My office is at one far end and have strong Wi-Fi in the far back bedroom but this is what I had to do:

Main router connected to modem (use Cox) in office is:
TP-Link AC5400 Wireless Wi-Fi Tri-Band Gigabit Router (Archer C5400)

In walk in huge closet before the bedroom but behind a block wall I need this extender:
Amped Wireless ATHENA-EX, High Power AC2600 Wi-Fi Range Extender with MU-MIMO (RE2600M)

While may not be critical I also have in bedroom:
TP-Link AC1900 Wireless Wi-Fi Router - Long Range, High Powered, Dual Band, Gigabit (Archer C9)

In addition in my living room which is next to the office, I need an Ethernet connection for TiVO which I have
TP-Link AC1200 Wi-Fi Range Extender w/ Gigabit Ethernet Port, Small Footprint w/ Intelligent Signal LED Ring, (RE350)

If you have just normal walls and two stories you might get by just with the first AC5400.
 
Dave in Phoenix said:
I did a great deal of research to get to my current set up.

I have a 2300ft one level Frank Lloyd Wright like design with block walls that Wi-Fi doesn't like going through.

My office is at one far end and have strong Wi-Fi in the far back bedroom but this is what I had to do:

Main router connected to modem (use Cox) in office is:
TP-Link AC5400 Wireless Wi-Fi Tri-Band Gigabit Router (Archer C5400)

In walk in huge closet before the bedroom but behind a block wall I need this extender:
Amped Wireless ATHENA-EX, High Power AC2600 Wi-Fi Range Extender with MU-MIMO (RE2600M)

While may not be critical I also have in bedroom:
TP-Link AC1900 Wireless Wi-Fi Router - Long Range, High Powered, Dual Band, Gigabit (Archer C9)

In addition in my living room which is next to the office, I need an Ethernet connection for TiVO which I have
TP-Link AC1200 Wi-Fi Range Extender w/ Gigabit Ethernet Port, Small Footprint w/ Intelligent Signal LED Ring, (RE350)

If you have just normal walls and two stories you might get by just with the first AC5400.
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With Rogers, as I understand it it is a modem with a router built in. I can't use Ethernet as it is too far for it. Was thinking of something in living room which is top of stairs and would probably be an ideal place, but needs to be wireless. I saw Google has something but very expensive. If I am not making sense, excuse, as mentioned not technical.
 
DennistheMenace said:
With Rogers, as I understand it it is a modem with a router built in. I can't use Ethernet as it is too far for it. Was thinking of something in living room which is top of stairs and would probably be an ideal place, but needs to be wireless. I saw Google has something but very expensive. If I am not making sense, excuse, as mentioned not technical.
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Yep. The newer modems from Rogers do have the router built in.
You can still connect your own router.
Asus routers are great.
You can also look into powerline adapters.
 
i had the same problem... got a netgear extender works great and not expensive
 
Run CAT 6 cable.

Wifi is shit no matter what unless you're sitting right beside the modem and even then.

Youtube taught me how to make the connections

Use only real CAT 6 cable and fittings by Belden available at Nedco at their Mississauga branch (Keaton Crescent). The stuff they sell at Home Depot is fucking shit. (With no offence to all the pieces of turd in the world)
 
james t kirk said:
Run CAT 6 cable.

Wifi is shit no matter what unless you're sitting right beside the modem and even then.

Youtube taught me how to make the connections

Use only real CAT 6 cable and fittings by Belden available at Nedco at their Mississauga branch (Keaton Crescent). The stuff they sell at Home Depot is fucking shit. (With no offence to all the pieces of turd in the world)
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This. Your modem and wifi don't need to be in the same place. Put the WiFi in the best location and the modem wherever it needs to be and run cat 6 between them.

Also I connect my TV (actually my Roku device) directly by cat6 as well just so that the streaming content mostly doesn't go over WiFi.
 
doggee_01 said:
i had the same problem... got a netgear extender works great and not expensive
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SchlongConery said:
Here is one that says it is easy to set up

https://www.amazon.com/Amped-Wirele...he-20&linkId=0a499f90e18abcf9a6ce337c04b446b1

Here are some highly rated, low cost name brand units on Amazon.ca

https://www.amazon.ca/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias=aps&field-keywords=wifi+repeater

This is a good solid unit

https://www.amazon.ca/NETGEAR-N300-...&qid=1494092604&sr=8-1&keywords=wifi+repeater
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I think that both of you have answered the original poster's questions
 
The OP should probably just walk into the nearest Canada Computers and buy whatever extender they want in the $60-120 range.

http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.php?cPath=27_1056_1058

The op might also want to figure out how to log onto their router to see if they can boost their wifi's power. (Google it's model number and RTFM.) If your wifi performance is still shit you might want to consider a wifi analyzer app for your phone / computer, then try setting your wifi router to the least used channel. Though many newer routers will check for the least used channel, AFAIK.

fuji said:
This. Your modem and wifi don't need to be in the same place.
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The problem being many people now get a combo modem-router/wifi box from Bell or Rogers, and forget that they can still plug a router in. Frankly, I'd never trust a mystery box that can do whatever it wants to your network traffic, but people should do whatever they want. It's one thing for your ISP to be able to see your (hopefully encrypted) traffic to the public internet, it's another thing to let them, anyone who can issue a warrant, or has an exploit for that model of device, go playing on your LAN (that increasingly includes IoT devices like cameras, TVs, to full on 'Digital Home' type stuff). I don't do anything particularly shady, but nope.

Let the modem be the gateway device and disable all of the routing stuff on it (which will often improve latency), then use a router for hard lines / wifi. At a minimum make sure the router is still being updated, if it's not consider an open source 3rd party firmware, or just use a 3rd party firmware that's open source in the first place. Mind you, all of this requires medium level technical skill.
 
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