2 Floors House internet setup help

[Filipe Campos]

I have a house with 2 floors, router is installed on living room (1st floor) where most of the devices are connected to the internet, but my office where my pc stays is upstairs, I tried a internet extender and there's a thing where it crashes 50 to 50 minutes I don't know how to solve it =/ Should I buy other extender? Using a cable isn't really pratical but I can plan it a bit. Help please ;-;

[Kevguy]

powerline is your friend.

[Nater]

Lets be real, the only connection that really matters is your pc, move it to your office.

[W-L]

I have a house with 2 floors, router is installed on living room (1st floor) where most of the devices are connected to the internet, but my office where my pc stays is upstairs, I tried a internet extender and there's a thing where it crashes 50 to 50 minutes I don't know how to solve it =/ Should I buy other extender? Using a cable isn't really pratical but I can plan it a bit. Help please ;-;

 

Have you considered using powerline to give you a wire connection in your office, or the powerline wifi adapters to give a new access point. It uses the wiring in the home to communicate between the two wall units you plug in.

[chicksoup]

as others mentioned: powerlan(line) devolo is the leading brand, but others offer equally good performance for half the price

[Filipe Campos]

Any good model I should be looking at?

[AnonymousGuy]

How my house is set up:

 

Modem and Asus AC-66R router in laundry room (corner of house).  Ethernet runs along floorboards for 100 something feet to the middle of my house where there's a switch that I plug my desktop and laptop into.  From there I use a cheap Linksys router with DD-WRT to go from switch LAN -> WiFi to act as a range extender to push wifi through to my backyard.

 

Basically, don't worry about hardwiring every computer into the router...just hardwire as far as you can and then put a dd-wrt router on it and use that to extend wifi reliably.  LAN -> Wifi is much more reliable than Wifi-Wifi range extending.

[rcarteraz]

There's power line adapters or you could also get a good quality access point.

[W-L]

Any good model I should be looking at?

 

TP-Link isn't bad if your going for wifi I this would be a good unit to expand the wifi range or add a completely seperate access point:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833704197

 

Regular wired, no wifi:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833704165

[Filipe Campos]

My pc is the only pc needing good internet connection, rest of the house only watches some videos or internet browsing 

[dom1310df]

My advice:

 

Powerline if it is temporary, you're on a budget, or you find that it meets your needs

Permanently installed cabling if none of the above apply.

[Filipe Campos]

Do I need to plug powerline on a direct outlet? Because there is only 1 near the router where many cables plug into a power surge protector =/

[dom1310df]

Do I need to plug powerline on a direct outlet? Because there is only 1 near the router where many cables plug into a power surge protector =/

Ideally yes. Sometimes it will work connected to a surge protector strip socket, but not always.

[W-L]

Do I need to plug powerline on a direct outlet? Because there is only 1 near the router where many cables plug into a power surge protector =/

 

Yes the powerline adapter need to be directly plugged into a wall outlet, surge protector or power strips can degrade or mess up the signal sometimes.

[Filipe Campos]

Then I gotta think on another option =/

[Kevguy]

Any good model I should be looking at?

I have Linksys powerline, but they were purchased before Belkin took over.  Not sure what they are like now.

[Kevguy]

I online game War Thunder using powerline.  No issues at all.

[Kevguy]

Then I gotta think on another option =/

Can you plug it into another free outlet in the room the PC is in but not near the PC?  That's what I did and used a 12 ft ethernet cable from the powerline adapter.

[Filipe Campos]

The closest one is on the other side of the room =/

[Kevguy]

The closest one is on the other side of the room =/

well, that's where mine was.....but the PC is in a small room (home office). Even though the plug was on the other side of the room a 15 ft flexible and flat ethernet cable fit nicely along the wall and plugged into the back of the PC.  I play games online with that PC without problem.

[skywake]

I'm entering into this conversation late but I think there is a bit to add. For a start Powerline does look like the best option for you, as others have explained. I would however seriously consider running Ethernet because it's not as expensive or difficult as you might think. You can get someone in to do it for you. I did it this way because "technically" it has to be done that way in Australia, I got my electrician to do it while he was doing a few other things. The costs were itemised and even with Australian tradie wages it ended up being less expensive per-run than an an AV200 powerline kit was at the time. Now it'd be about the same price as an AV500 kit. Either way, a bit of a pain but the end result was more for less.

 

On powerline adapters. If you are going down that route then I'd strongly suggest spending a little bit more and getting one of the AV2 kits. They're fast enough that you should be getting somewhere around 100Mbps out of them in a typical install. Ontop of that some have the ability to compensate for electrical noise unlike the AV200 and AV500 kits. On the topic of plugging it directly into the outlet? Yes, 100% that's what you should do. However the people who make these know that this can be an issue so some of them have a power passthrough. Which again costs a little bit more.

 

..... so I'll repeat again, it's a good solution. But I'd strongly suggest researching running Ethernet before you go down the powerline path. Because there's a fair chance that down the road you'll want even more out of your network. Running Ethernet is a kind of "set and forget" solution, everything else is a compromise. Even if you aren't confident doing it yourself look up a few places, get some quotes, see what can be done. You might be surprised.

[Filipe Campos]

I might try running a cable, but I gotta make it stick to the walls, I got dogs and they might bite it =/

[W-L]

I might try running a cable, but I gotta make it stick to the walls, I got dogs and they might bite it =/

 

If your planning to run cable instead you can get some raceways for it to prevent the dogs from getting at it:

http://www.cableorganizer.com/surface-raceways/

[Filipe Campos]

I will get some plastic things that stick to the wall (Don't remember the name) They're really cheaper than raceways, My dogs are small and fat soo they wont jump =P I just can't pass it through the floor