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Originally Posted by Jsmitt94
I suppose I should have prefaced my questions to say it is an old double story house with thick walls, so connection via wifi all the way to the end of the back yard will never work. It's honestly terrible from the front of the house to the back of the house or even directly above the modem upstairs is terrible. By ethernet it's perfect, but wifi not so much.:
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Even more reason to have AP's. A Double brick house is a solid house I would love to own, but yes.. signal cant penetrate well. Do it right the first time and save the headaches and wasted money buying a range extender. Range extenders give crap speeds and you will be questioning why you went down that path later on.
A cheap way pending what router/wifi you own, you can buy a few internal AP's for inside the house, get one external AP attached to an external wall in the backyard, wire (cat6e) it all up to your router, disable the wifi on the router and setup AP mesh (1 SSID across all AP's and your devices will roam automatically to the strongest single anywhere around the house)... I'm being very high level.