Help with my landlady's not so good wifi

[SamRed]

Hi,

So my landlady has a standard Sasktel router which doesn't have very good range, she had previously bought a D-Link DAP-1820 wifi booster at the request of a previous tenant, which I find actually helps with my apartment's wifi, but I do still find that the WIFI is a bit sluggish at times and sometimes my phone will indicate no internet even though the router indicates that there is an internet connection.

 

Would it be beneficial if I bought a pair of TP-Link AV1000 powerline ethernet adapters to provide a pseudo hardwire connection between the router and wifi booster?

 

Also, her current internet connection is DSL but at somepoint soon she is going to book an appointment to get upgraded to fiberoptic internet.  Would that make any difference with the reliability of the wifi and so I should wait and see before buying EoP adapters?

 

Thanks

[DrMacintosh]

Getting Fiber Installed will likely come with a new router. Wait and see how things go after that. 

[Slottr]

When she upgrades to fibre, SaskTel will replace your current modem/router.

 

The ones that come with the service are decent enough for a small-medium apartment.

[seanondemand]

I've experimented with a couple powerline adapter setups including that same TP-Link set. If you're lucky and you can run them on the same circuit (like, the same breaker), you can pull OK speeds (~100mbps), but if not, you will be lucky to pull anything better than 15mbps down. However, even though it's slow, the connection is reliable enough for basic use and conference calling, Teams, etc. Gaming's didn't work out very well for me.

 

One thing I did not get to experiment with was MoCA adapters, which use the coax lines in the wall (due to the ISP at the place I was playing with already using MoCA for the cable boxes). If there's coax not being used, that might be worth trying.