The Wi-Fi in my house does not reach all the way to my room on the first floor. Even if it does, it is weak and unreliable most of the time.
Probably because my house is old/modem is old I figured.
Thing is I am curious what to do. Do I buy a new router? Buy an repeater? Is a Powerline Adapter a better choice overall?
Help me out and I promise not to bother again.
Powerline adapters are a last resort, they never produce more than half the speed they claim they do and have shitty latency. If your house isn't that big, buy a better router and experiment with the placement of it - put it as central in the house as you can, not on the floor or right by any furniture that's going to immediately impede the signal, etc.
If your house is huge, get a mesh network kit like Orbi
If you have a newish house with clean wiring, then use a powerline adapter. If not get a repeater and put it half way between the router and your room. If that doesn't work, nigger-rig a system of complex tinfoil dishes and pick up the CIA alien deltawaves coming from space.
>>59420863
>Powerline adapters are a last resort, they never produce more than half the speed they claim they do and have shitty latency.
...Like Wifi? Which is even worse?
Tinfoil or pringles can. Directional antenna anon. Look it up on hirens
>>59420893
/g/ likes to shit on powerline adapters for some reason. I use them in my house and they work great. Better signal than receiving wifi in my case. It really depends on the building.
>>59420863
My house is not huge, it's medium sized (4 rooms first floor). Do you recommend the ASUS modem in the wiki?
Also my work-pc is downstairs on the ground level. My router (old Huawei modem) is connected to that PC, since I'm there most of the time anyway.
If I had to place to modem halfway through I'd have to dig holes in walls I guess.
>>59420910
Does that actually work? I always thought that was a meme.
>>59420949
I tried it once. It improved my wifi signal by about 2% in the direction it was pointed. lel