How to extend router wiFi range

[atomcrusher]

I have a Telkom ISP ADSL connection with an "up to 10 Mbps" connection. My ADSL router is a new Netgear Model D6000 WiFi Modem Router

My home is on one level, and is fairly open plan.

My home is quite large (i.e. 3 x large bedrooms at one end of the home, and a very large open plan lounge/dining area, leading off a large kitchen area, and also a large study in which our Netgear router is installed

Connected (wirelessly) to our router are usually 2 x Android 10" Tablets, plus our 2 x android mobile phones.

Our Android devices often drop the WiFi connection, and we then need to re-establish the wi-fi connection by moving closer to our Study, to restore wifi connection, before being able to use our wifi devices in other home areas.

I suspect I may need some form of WiFi signal booster to prevent wifi drop outs at (e.g.) having wifi signal on our large stoep, and in all extremities of our large house

Any ideas that I could try?? Tx guys ... and have a great New Year, and 2018

 

[SauRoNZA]

If it’s using 5ghz switch to 2.4 as a start.

Then use something like Inssider to find the most available channels and set that manually.

 

[zizo911]

Get A signal booster... I have 3 in my home and it makes sure I have signal everywhere on my property

 

[SauRoNZA]

Get A signal booster... I have 3 in my home and it makes sure I have signal everywhere on my property

Do you mean a repeater?

Full bars are useless if the underlying bandwidth is hampered.

Now if you said cabled access points that’s a different story.

 

[supersunbird]

Do you mean a repeater?

Full bars are useless if the underlying bandwidth is hampered.

Now if you said cabled access points that’s a different story.

I installed a repeater (I got it with my B315 LTE router in a Telkom deal) for extending the fibre routers wifi. There is one room where wifi was very to weak. The repeater is 4m, 2 walls, away from the netgear fibre router, now that room has a lovely signal, just 1 wall away from it's wifi source instead of 3.

 

[ponder]

1. Extend your phone line to somewhere in the middle of the house and place the router there.
2. Run a lan cable from your router to the other end of the house and install a access point there, can also use PoE to power it via lan cable.
Should be able to run both phone or lan cable in the ceiling

 

[SauRoNZA]

I installed a repeater (I got it with my B315 LTE router in a Telkom deal) for extending the fibre routers wifi. There is one room where wifi was very to weak. The repeater is 4m, 2 walls, away from the netgear fibre router, now that room has a lovely signal, just 1 wall away from it's wifi source instead of 3.

Is it a wireless bridge or a cabled one?

Because the problem with a wireless bridge is that you end up sitting with half the bandwidth on that link...often less than the lower signal had been before.

Full bars don’t tell the whole story.

 

[atomcrusher]

Tx to everyone who responded .. I'll try some of the recommended solutions