I recently moved to a new house and have found it rather difficult to get my wifi network set up. The house is about 90 years old and has a few extensions off the back, generally the wifi signal is adequate everywhere in the original area of the house but cannot reach into the extensions at all. My current router is a Linksys EA2500 which has served me well. To try and fix this, I purchased a Linksys RE1000 range extender. This does get wifi access to the two far rooms but, barely. After playing around with locations at various electric outlets I can at best get reliable but slow internet speeds in the farthest room (for example, the xbox back there has been working on downloading a 400mb game for over an hour).
I'm contemplating 3 different options and trying to figure out how I can do this without blowing any money unnecessarily...
1) Purchase another RE1000 so I can keep the first repeater in a stronger signal area.
2) Purchase a base router with a stronger signal (such as a N66U or EA4500) so that I can get more bandwidth to the repeater.
3) Install DD-WRT on the EA2500 and try to boost the antenna.
I'm tempted to go with Option 2, but that's a significant investment in $$$ and I have no idea if it would actually work.
Open to any other suggestions as well!
I'm contemplating 3 different options and trying to figure out how I can do this without blowing any money unnecessarily...
1) Purchase another RE1000 so I can keep the first repeater in a stronger signal area.
2) Purchase a base router with a stronger signal (such as a N66U or EA4500) so that I can get more bandwidth to the repeater.
3) Install DD-WRT on the EA2500 and try to boost the antenna.
I'm tempted to go with Option 2, but that's a significant investment in $$$ and I have no idea if it would actually work.
Open to any other suggestions as well!