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How can I speed up the wi-fi connection to my room?

64bit_warrior
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I have the worst Wi-Fi connection in my room in comparison to the rest of the house, it is patchy and slow. I wondered if there was a way to improve the signal, I know there are signal extenders that you can buy fairly cheaply but I have no free wall sockets (as they have to be plugged directly in to the wall, not through an extender) but I do have two "old" PCs which I could use if that might help. I just think it would be cool and different to use a PC case instead of a little box to help. Is this possible?

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no, you cant use a PC case as an antenna

 

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You could run an access point closer to your room with a long cord (and use Power over Ethernet), kinda like Linus did in this video:

 

The other option is to run a long ethernet cable to your room and just use Ethernet

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4 minutes ago, Enderman said:

no, you cant use a PC case as an antenna

 

buy one of these

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The problem is, my room is the room positioned the furthest away from the router on the other side of the house, so the ethernet cable would have to be over the floor and over the carpet, so would look messy

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19 minutes ago, 64bit_warrior said:

The problem is, my room is the room positioned the furthest away from the router on the other side of the house, so the ethernet cable would have to be over the floor and over the carpet, so would look messy

no it does not

you can spend a few hours and make a cable run almost invisible

 

laying it across the floor is lazy

it doesnt have to be that way

 

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24 minutes ago, 64bit_warrior said:

The problem is, my room is the room positioned the furthest away from the router on the other side of the house, so the ethernet cable would have to be over the floor and over the carpet, so would look messy

Or just lift the carpet and tuck it under...

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1 minute ago, TheRandomness said:

Or just lift the carpet and tuck it under...

Tuck it under the fixed carpet?

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