What is the best way to get internet up to my room?

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Steve Gates

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I live in a house where my wifi router is downstairs and my computer is upstairs but they are on opposite sides of my house. I only get 2 or 3 bars connection at best, i have a tp link 150mbs wifi card in my pc. Any help will be welcome!
 
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Steve Gates

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The ethernet cable would need to be 50+ metres dor it to reach my pc, my router is on a different ringmain to my pc, i have no idea what that is and im using wifi currently and it isnt very good
 
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Steve Gates

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Will a range extender reduce my internet speed?
 
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bill001g

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If you run them like most people as wireless repeaters the causes at least 50% reduction in speed and that assume optimum placements. Obviously it does no good to set it right next to the router or right next to your computer. If you were to run a ethernet cable part way and then use the extender as a AP that will not reduce your speed.

USAFret list is your best guide. You only want to use a wireless repeater/extender as a last option when you can get nothing else to work. When you start using repeaters you must just accept that you are going to get less throughput and much more random issues due to wireless interference.

The number of bars you get for signal strength is only part of the issue a very clean signal at low signal level can still get better throughput than a strong signal with lots of interference. When you run repeaters you are intentionally transmitting a second interfering signal.

 
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That netgear one i listed has a feature they call fastrack i believe. It allows you to connect on one wifi network and retransmit at full speed on the other frequency. For instance I use that one currently in my detached garage about 140 feet away through 3 walls and have it connected to a asus rt-n66u router on 5ghz. It takes all the bandwidth for that connection and retransmits on 2.4ghz. I am getting about 108-144mbit connection depending on weather between the asus router and netgear range extender currently. It also has I believe it was 4 gigabit ethernet connections on the back(you are however limited to the speed the range extender is connected). I have been running it for a solid year now with not a single hiccup. In your case the way I see it is you have two options. Either A) you get a stronger main router to transmit further or B) you get a strong receiver(range extender) and tie into the range extender either by wifi or directly into the extender.
 
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Steve Gates

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If i got a longer range antenna for my wifi card would that help?
 
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Maybe, maybe not. WiFi is different in every house.
 
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