- Mar 24, 2013
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I live in a small 3 bedroom apartment but for some reason, the signal here is terrible no matter what router I use (I've tried several different routers).
I have my comcast modem connected to a Netgear router inside the 2nd bedroom (between the master and 3rd bedroom). The signal is great in the hallway, 3rd bedroom and master bedroom but once I go to the living room/kitchen area, I'm down to like 3-4 bars. To my knowledge, 3-4 bars is still pretty good for streaming simple youtube videos but the internet is so slow, I can't even watch simple youtube videos without waiting for the videos to buffer
. I don't know why but it's the same case with different routers I've tried like Linksys, Netgear, Trendnet, and Medialink. So my conclusion is, it must be how the apartment is built.
My brother has his computer in the living room connected to my Netgear router inside my 2nd bedroom via a Cat5 cable (30 ft long cable -_-).
So what I'm planning to do is, buy another router, hook his cat5 cable to the new router, then disable DHCP on the new router and give it a static IP, then hook his computer to the new router with another cat5 cable
My question is, if I set up the new router with the same SSID, encryption type & passcode (AES WPA2), will that give me a problem? Will this setup basically give my home 1 super SSID that I can use throughout the apartment? Since I still get 3-4 bars in the living room/kitchen area, will I be able to roam smoothly wherever I go? Or do I need to set the 2nd router with a different SSID and manually switch whenever I roam?
I have my comcast modem connected to a Netgear router inside the 2nd bedroom (between the master and 3rd bedroom). The signal is great in the hallway, 3rd bedroom and master bedroom but once I go to the living room/kitchen area, I'm down to like 3-4 bars. To my knowledge, 3-4 bars is still pretty good for streaming simple youtube videos but the internet is so slow, I can't even watch simple youtube videos without waiting for the videos to buffer
. I don't know why but it's the same case with different routers I've tried like Linksys, Netgear, Trendnet, and Medialink. So my conclusion is, it must be how the apartment is built.My brother has his computer in the living room connected to my Netgear router inside my 2nd bedroom via a Cat5 cable (30 ft long cable -_-).
So what I'm planning to do is, buy another router, hook his cat5 cable to the new router, then disable DHCP on the new router and give it a static IP, then hook his computer to the new router with another cat5 cable
My question is, if I set up the new router with the same SSID, encryption type & passcode (AES WPA2), will that give me a problem? Will this setup basically give my home 1 super SSID that I can use throughout the apartment? Since I still get 3-4 bars in the living room/kitchen area, will I be able to roam smoothly wherever I go? Or do I need to set the 2nd router with a different SSID and manually switch whenever I roam?
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