I have an old plaster and lathe house which was wired with Cat5e cable terminating in the corner of the basement. I have spotty wireless on the 2nd floor not bad but annoying at times when my devices drop the network.
I still use the wired LAN for my 2 PC's and a Smart TV (best data transfer rate) so I do not want to move the wireless router with 4 LAN ports from the basement but was thinking of moving the antenna up to the top of the basement stairwell on the 1st floor and a little more center of the house.
My Questions:
What effect would the following have on speed and range?
Are inline wireless amplifiers any good?
Any other comments on this method of increasing my range / speed and fixing my issue??
Hardware change:
-- 10 ft Cable to get to the top of the stairwell
-- Either a 2 Watt or 5 Watt 2.4GHz Wi-Fi Signal Booster Broadband Amplifier (to eliminate signal / speed loss due to the length of the cable and increase range of the antenna)
-- New 18dbi antenna (replace the standard 5dbi antenna)
I still use the wired LAN for my 2 PC's and a Smart TV (best data transfer rate) so I do not want to move the wireless router with 4 LAN ports from the basement but was thinking of moving the antenna up to the top of the basement stairwell on the 1st floor and a little more center of the house.
My Questions:
What effect would the following have on speed and range?
Are inline wireless amplifiers any good?
Any other comments on this method of increasing my range / speed and fixing my issue??
Hardware change:
-- 10 ft Cable to get to the top of the stairwell
-- Either a 2 Watt or 5 Watt 2.4GHz Wi-Fi Signal Booster Broadband Amplifier (to eliminate signal / speed loss due to the length of the cable and increase range of the antenna)
-- New 18dbi antenna (replace the standard 5dbi antenna)