Hello,
I joined this forum to get tips on how to improve internet range at my home. We have a 20mbps connection. Our main router is in the living room, The other bedrooms are down the hall from the living room, so reach is quite poor. For this reason I've placed a Belkin dual band extender in the first room closest to the living room. It was working pretty well, until one day the speeds from the extended network dropped by 80%. Before that I was getting the same speed on my extended network as my router (how? i don't know). My Linksys AC1200 smart wifi router has dual band...so I enabled the 5ghz band on the main router and the extender thinking it would improve the speed, but it didn't..so I figured 2.4ghz was the issue and disabled the 2.4ghz on the extender and set it to extended just the 5ghz ac wifi while my main router had both 2.4ghz and 5ghz enabled. And I got my speed back.
But my problem is that some devices don't support 5ghz ac..like my Note 3 (for some reason), PS3, PS4, PS Vita and Chromecast...If 2.4ghz speeds were okay on the extender, I wouldn't have an issue, I've tried many ways to improve speed on the 2.4ghz band, but with no luck.
What can I do? is a passthrough powerline with wifi a good option? I live in a fairly solidly built apartment building, I'm not sure if electrical disturbance would be an issue.
If powerline adaptors are the way to go, would it be safe to plug in the TV, PS3, PS4 via extension cord on the passthrough socket on the powerline adaptor?
help..
