Another Router or Access Point?

You have to be very careful to understand the difference between the devices...of course the manufactures love to confuse people.

You have a client-bridge. This allows a device that has only a ethernet port to connect to either a AP or a router. This in effect converts the ethernet port to a wireless card.
You have a AP. This is a device that allows end user machine (ie clients) to connect and then it forwards that data over a ethernet cable to another devices normally the router.
You have a repeater. This is the most messy and unclear definition. In most cases it takes in a wireless signal and then retransmits it out again.

The vendors call all these unit range extenders and many times repeaters even though the term "repeating" is not a valid use of the term when conversion is being done from ethernet to wireless.....it would mean a DSL modem was a repeater by that definition.

So from what i can make out you have a client-bridge hooked to the via ethernet and then it uses wireless to connect to the router. You really can't use a repeater or a AP to replace this function. You could get a different client-bridge or I suppose you could get a AP and run a cable from the router to the AP and hope to place the AP closer to the client-bridge.

You need to get into your current linksys and look at the speed it claims it connects at and then look and see how many errors it is taking. You likely already have more connection speed than your ISP connection so more speed will make no difference. Errors are most likely caused by interference. Best bet would be to change the channels you are using to see if makes a difference. Of course more signal strength does reduce the interference but it is going to be tough to accomplish.

The only way I can see to get more signal level is to see how much farther you can extend the ethernet cables. Placing a AP closer would help but then if you can run ethernet all the way it would be the best.

Be very careful to read the fine print in Amped products. They try to pretend they are transmitting at some higher power levels but they being somewhat misleading. When you go look them up in the FCC database you will find like every other product on the market they can only transmit at the legal maximum allowed. Their product is no better or worse than any of the other major vendors on the market. So don't pay extra for slick marketing. Their wireless repeaters will likely work just as poorly as every other one on the market. You do not want to use a wireless repeater from any manufacture except when there is no other way to get signal.


You may want to look at a completely different solution. You could look at powerline network devices or maybe even MoCA devices if you have coax.