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MadOrc
By MadOrc
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The apartment I live in has thick concrete walls that don't allow wifi through, so only half the apartment has wifi due to the long floor plan. I have to rely on a 100ft Ethernet cable going through the crown molding, which only serves my PC. We have tried range extenders and repeaters, none of which work for more than a few seconds (weird, right?). If I don't want to get a whole new network for half the apartment what can I do to get wifi?

I don't have much knowledge about networks, sorry if the answer is obvious.

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get another AP

 

maybe a Unifi AP Pro

 

 

get a switch connected to the ethernet cable

run a short one to your PC and run another one to the wireless AP

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I have the same issue. I use 2 routers and 2 networks. Make sure they are not on the same channel. It is not the best and most ideal solution, but a short 20-100ft ethernet signal will have better signal integrity than wifi extenders.

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