BigPun99SJ
New Around Here
So I keep waisting money on routers just trying to get my house wireless. For background...
This is all on one floor, about 1500 sqft. I have 2 laptops, ipad, xbox 360, internet alarm clock, smart tv and 2 cell phones that would connect to this wireless network. I also have a slingbox I would like to set back up. Currently, my cable modem and router is in my office on one side of the house, living room in middle, bedroom on far end. XBox hardly gets any signal, phones and clock don't get much either. TV works here and there.
I had an old linksys router than I upgrade a year ago to the WRT120N. Seemed to work fine, but wanted something better. So I got hooked into the Tomato/DDWRT deal and spent money to get another older linksys and found that the purchase was probably pretty stupid because either I don't know enough on how to work it, or the router itself is outdated so even with tomato it wont work.
So no I am about to buy another router, this time dropping $200 or so on the "top of the line" hoping that will solve all of my problems. But before I do I am looking for someone to tell me what to do.
IE.. buy this router, turn the old one into an access point so you get better inet in the bedroom with xbox, or use powerline.. or any of the other options I keep reading about!!
Someone please help. I dont have problem spending a few hundred to get this all to work!!
This is all on one floor, about 1500 sqft. I have 2 laptops, ipad, xbox 360, internet alarm clock, smart tv and 2 cell phones that would connect to this wireless network. I also have a slingbox I would like to set back up. Currently, my cable modem and router is in my office on one side of the house, living room in middle, bedroom on far end. XBox hardly gets any signal, phones and clock don't get much either. TV works here and there.
I had an old linksys router than I upgrade a year ago to the WRT120N. Seemed to work fine, but wanted something better. So I got hooked into the Tomato/DDWRT deal and spent money to get another older linksys and found that the purchase was probably pretty stupid because either I don't know enough on how to work it, or the router itself is outdated so even with tomato it wont work.
So no I am about to buy another router, this time dropping $200 or so on the "top of the line" hoping that will solve all of my problems. But before I do I am looking for someone to tell me what to do.
IE.. buy this router, turn the old one into an access point so you get better inet in the bedroom with xbox, or use powerline.. or any of the other options I keep reading about!!
Someone please help. I dont have problem spending a few hundred to get this all to work!!