What router provides strongest WiFi signal ?

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I live in a home with matal lath supporting the plaster walls. My Cisco EA6500 just won't communicate more than 20ft thru these walls. I have a room with my router and desktop but my laptop and Xbox are in another room. What router will provide the signal strength I need ?
 
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Al non commercial WiFi devices are limited to 100mW or 120 depending on which part of the world. You can make it better by using larger and/or directional antenna. Normally they have 2 - 5dB antenna but 18dB+ are also available.
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You can always ping the internet into another room, To get the full signal cost maybe around 20 dollars or so.. Get a hold of Cisco and ask if they can hook that all up for you.
 
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Get a wifi extender.
 
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I've talked to several sales people in stores such as Best Buy, Micro Center, etc. and they claim most routers have a similar output wattage. The big difference is in the speeds, more money .... more speed. Yet the extender vendors claim they have a higher output wattage than the routers, maybe 10 times as much (but no specifics). I have an extender, mounted on the wall just on the other side from my router and it has not helped. I suspect even the extender has trouble picking up the signal from the router - that's why I'd like to find a router with a stronger signal.
 
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I haven't solved this yet. Using a Cisco RE4000W extender seemed to help only slightly. Of interest is the comment about antenna as the EA6500 antenna are internal so it's nothing I can change. Would a router with external antennas provide a significant improvement ?
 
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External antenna can help, especially removable one. Typical antenna that come with router has 2 - 5dB gain while you can get and change to 17 or 20dB. Even better antennae are directional. Another problem is that emitter is limited to 100 -120mW depending where you live.
 
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