Hi guys,
I need some advice as I have very little experience with this, it's always been a case of a simple wireless router and laptop in the past for me.
Now we have more devices, and more demand for fairly decent speed at home, i'm having issues.
I'll list the equipment I have:-
Main wireless router - tplink archer 7
Spare wireless router (not in use) - netger wrn1000
4 powerline adpators - tplink 500
Wifi extender - netgear n150
I had the wireless router downstairs in the hall way attached to the BT modem / fibre gateway thing (not sure what it's called), with the router connected to a power plug. I have a PC in a office to the back of the house, with I connected to the network via another power plug. a TV and a ps3 upstairs also using one power plug each.
Problem is, wireless network is really bad upstairs. especially with ipad. I used the wifi extender upstairs in the hallway, but this brings down the overall speed.
It's more important to have the wireless running fast upstairs, so I did an experiment today - I connected the fibre modem to a power plug. moved the wireless router upstairs with a powerline connection coming in to it. That made wireless upstairs great, and I used the extender downstairs....but now I find the pc in the office slow.
I connected it to a power plug and connected the router upstairs to another power plug in one of the ports, but i'm guessing it cant work like this....and the pc down stairs could connect to it either.
What can I do? any ideas how I can have the pc downstairs connected to a power plug...I also have that WRN1000 wireless router lying around if this can help in any way.
I'm thinking I need to buy a long ethernet cable, and wire it from the hallway /BT modem, all the way up stairs to the router (and then have it connected to a power plug off that)...I can't move the gateway / BT modem thingie though...
Any help would be much appreciated as i am a confused chap!


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