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Mobile Hotspot now or later?

Andrewf
By Andrewf
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Mobile Hotspot is a bad idea in my opinion. If you've never tried to use a hotspot for gaming don't, its absolutely terrible. My suggestion would be to get powerline adapters. They essentially convert the electrical wiring in your house into Ethernet. There are a lot at different prices but depending on your houses wiring and which adapters you get you could even get pretty much your full download and upload speeds. One plugs into the router and a wall outlet next to it the other into your ethernet port on your device and a wall outlet next to it creating a hardline connection.

https://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-Powerline-Adapter-Ethernet-Passthrough/dp/B0778Y6K6N/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=powerline+adapter&psr=EY17&qid=1575487617&s=cyber-monday&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&sr=1-1

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1 hour ago, Andrewf said:

Is there a way to fix it without going into the wiring? The house is pretty old from ~1960s and we just had faulty wiring fixed as well.

Unfortunately if your electrical wiring is old and you have dirty power they may not work for you. Return the ones from bestbuy and wait for the better ones to arrive. If you still have the same issue with the better ones then I don't think they will work for you in your home. You could also try purchasing a better router. Depending on the router you have a long range wireless router or a ubuiqiti access point may be a good idea.

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17 hours ago, SpookyCitrus said:

Unfortunately if your electrical wiring is old and you have dirty power they may not work for you. Return the ones from bestbuy and wait for the better ones to arrive. If you still have the same issue with the better ones then I don't think they will work for you in your home. You could also try purchasing a better router. Depending on the router you have a long range wireless router or a ubuiqiti access point may be a good idea.

There's too many walls so the range becomes almost irrelevant. I suppose I'll just see if the better one works or not. If not, of well.

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