I am trying to troubleshoot some wireless range problems here at a house I moved into a few months ago...
My office (I work from home) is in a finished room over the garage, so therefore, that is where I have located my modem and router. The problem is that connection speed drops nearly 90% when going downstairs to the rest of the house.
I have replaced the router (currently using an Asus RT-N66U (stock firmware) and tried locating in in a couple different places in the room, as well as adjusting the antenna direction, angle, etc. I have 30mb Internet and get 25mb+ speed test results either via wired or wireless upstairs. But, when I go downstairs, my speed drops to <5mb and some devices have a hard time connecting at all.
So, I am trying to determine the next best step. I have considered using a repeater, trying a powerline adapter with access point, etc. It would be possible but a rather large pain to run an Ethernet cable downstairs so I would prefer to avoid that if possible.
Thanks for any suggestions.
My office (I work from home) is in a finished room over the garage, so therefore, that is where I have located my modem and router. The problem is that connection speed drops nearly 90% when going downstairs to the rest of the house.
I have replaced the router (currently using an Asus RT-N66U (stock firmware) and tried locating in in a couple different places in the room, as well as adjusting the antenna direction, angle, etc. I have 30mb Internet and get 25mb+ speed test results either via wired or wireless upstairs. But, when I go downstairs, my speed drops to <5mb and some devices have a hard time connecting at all.
So, I am trying to determine the next best step. I have considered using a repeater, trying a powerline adapter with access point, etc. It would be possible but a rather large pain to run an Ethernet cable downstairs so I would prefer to avoid that if possible.
Thanks for any suggestions.