Wifi Extender help (which to buy) Please help its for my son

Dylan_48

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I have a question about which extender to buy
My son needs a good connection and a VERY good download speed (at least 5 MB/s) because he does his school in his room, and he is a gamer as well as a youtuber. His room is the furthest away from out router and it takes ages for him to download anything, upload his videos (takes all night) and he said he has "ping lag" (idk what that is) when he's playing a game. I bought him a extender and it seemed to help a little, but not by much, though we did buy a really cheap one. I was wondering if there is any extender that will duplicate the same connection we have downstairs in his room. We have 5ghz wifi, and normally a 10-15 mb/s dl down stairs. Is there any way he could have that? Or at least bump it up to 5-7 mbs instead of 2/3?
 
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Dylan_48

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Yeah he uses Ethernet normally with the cheap extender we have, so if I were to buy say the first one on that amazon page, how good would the signal be?
 

Dylan_48

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Yeah he uses Ethernet normally with the cheap extender we have, so if I were to buy say the first one on that amazon page, how good would the signal be?
 

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Powerline extenders are hit or miss. If the room is on the same leg of your breaker box as where you plug in the extender they tend to work, well, if not they aren't very helpful. If the cheap one doesn't work well I don't see a better one doing much better.

I see two possibilities for you, one would be is it possible somehow for you to run an ethernet cable to his room?

The second would be would it be possible to run a cable to a more central location in the house closer to his room, and there you can put a WiFi access point so he can get a solid Wireless connection?
 

Dylan_48

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First off, love the picture, love Steve carrel. Second I don't think the Ethernet cord would work due to the fact of him being 2 stories up. 3rd what is a WiFi access point?

 

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Yeah I mean depending on your house it may be tough to run ethernet that far in it.

A WiFi access point is kind of like a wifi router except all it provides is the wifi connection, your router does all the routing.

this is an example

https://smile.amazon.com/TP-Link-Wireless-300Mbps-Repeater-TL-WA801ND/dp/B004UBU8IE/ref=sr_1_1?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1473263435&sr=1-1&keywords=wifi+access+point

You use an ethernet cable to plug this into your router and then place it elsewhere in your house to provide a stronger wifi signal.
 
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