Looking For A Wifi Extender

[Venoms]

I currently have the ASUS ROG Rapture AX11000 router and it's been good so far. The only issue is in the far corners of my house the WIFI can be pretty bad so I was looking for some compatible extenders that are easy to setup.

I would only need two extenders total to effectively cover my house with WIFI, so if anyone has any suggestions I would appreciate it.

[Slottr]

Is an AP an option? Most Wifi extenders suck

[Applefreak]

3 minutes ago, Venoms said:

I currently have the ASUS ROG Rapture AX11000 router and it's been good so far. The only issue is in the far corners of my house the WIFI can be pretty bad so I was looking for some compatible extenders that are easy to setup.

I would only need two extenders total to effectively cover my house with WIFI, so if anyone has any suggestions I would appreciate it.

I would play around with placement of the router and avoid having overlapping signals. As for range extenders, even the cheaper ones from TP-Link for example work great. However I would recommend extending with a wired input signal to avoid latency disconnects. Power lan solutions could work here, either for wired up devices or as a hotspot. Some more expensive ones have those build in. 

[Venoms]

49 minutes ago, Slottr said:

Is an AP an option? Most Wifi extenders suck

Honestly I'm a noob when it comes to networking and I'm just looking for something to plug an ethernet cable into from my router to make my WIFI signal better throughout my house. If an access point will do that, then that seems like a good solution. Just need something easy to setup and be capable of fast speeds.

[Slottr]

8 minutes ago, Venoms said:

Honestly I'm a noob when it comes to networking and I'm just looking for something to plug an ethernet cable into from my router to make my WIFI signal better throughout my house. If an access point will do that, then that seems like a good solution. Just need something easy to setup and be capable of fast speeds.

Thats exactly what an AP will do

I'd recommend anything from Ubiquiti

[Venoms]

1 hour ago, Slottr said:

Thats exactly what an AP will do

I'd recommend anything from Ubiquiti

What specific Ubiquiti product would you recommend for my application?

[Slottr]

1 minute ago, Venoms said:

What specific Ubiquiti product would you recommend for my application?

Probably just the AC lite

[Ahoy Hoy]

Have you thought of powerline extenders. If the room has a power socket you just plug one socket in near the router and connect a ethernet and then every socket on that power line has internet so you just buy other extenders and plug them in.

https://www.tp-link.com/uk/home-networking/powerline/tl-wpa4220-tkit/v4/

There pretty cheap and work really well. You can also just keep buying extra sockets and expand as much as you want.

[Slottr]

1 minute ago, Ahoy Hoy said:

Have you thought of powerline extenders. If the room has a power socket you just plug one socket in near the router and connect a ethernet and then every socket on that power line has internet so you just buy other extenders and plug them in.

https://www.tp-link.com/uk/home-networking/powerline/tl-wpa4220-tkit/v4/

There pretty cheap and work really well. You can also just keep buying extra sockets and expand as much as you want.

This is also a good option, granted your houses wiring is more modern than not.

Older houses electrical will struggle with solutions like this

[Falcon1986]

@Venoms - An access point will be much more reliable and faster than powerline or range extenders. If you can run ethernet, then stick with an access point. Converting an old wireless router to AP mode is an alternative, but special configuration is required. A simple AP is easier to set up.

 

Powerline, if and when it works, depends on a good-quality electrical circuit. Poor or old wiring and electrical interference will deteriorate the signal significantly. It is not guaranteed to work the same in 2 different houses.

 

Range extenders only increase wireless range, but that depends on them being able to connect to a good quality primary signal to extend in the first place. They introduce a lot of latency into any wireless network and overall network speed for clients connecting through the extender will be slow.

[Venoms]

17 hours ago, Falcon1986 said:

@Venoms - An access point will be much more reliable and faster than powerline or range extenders. If you can run ethernet, then stick with an access point. Converting an old wireless router to AP mode is an alternative, but special configuration is required. A simple AP is easier to set up.

 

Powerline, if and when it works, depends on a good-quality electrical circuit. Poor or old wiring and electrical interference will deteriorate the signal significantly. It is not guaranteed to work the same in 2 different houses.

 

Range extenders only increase wireless range, but that depends on them being able to connect to a good quality primary signal to extend in the first place. They introduce a lot of latency into any wireless network and overall network speed for clients connecting through the extender will be slow.

Yea never realized how little I knew about networking until know. I decided to go with two access points that would easily setup with my existing router. Now it makes a lot of sense why those range extenders I installed a few years back didn't do jack shit.