“Extending into the Back Yard... Our cable modem is located in the front of the house. I have run an Ethernet cable from the Modem to my wireless router located in the center of the house in the living room. In the living room everything wireless is running at full strength. The walls of my house are old and made up of wire mesh and horse hair plaster. so signal strength through the walls is weak at best. I am looking for a way of getting the wireless signal boosted outside the house so I can use my devices in the backyard as well as in my garage. My house sits on a property of about 150 feet (front to back) the house sits basically at the very front of the property and thus the wireless modem is just about at the front of the property as well. I do have capability of running Ethernet from the router into the garage, I just have not done that yet... the garage is about 50 feet from the wireless router. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.”
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Assuming you have a convenient power outlet adjacent to your backyard, a powerline range extender would seem to be the best option. The first device is plugged in close to your router, and the second plugged in where you need wireless access.I haven't used one, but you can check the specs..
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.You are better off with a wired 2nd router. This is not going to cover all those area at good strength. Connect a 2nd router to your main router with Ethernet wire, and configure the 2nd one to work as access point / repeater instead of a router. Disable DHCP on the second one. Let the primary one do DHCP.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.I'd say you should get a better signal but not a full one.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.If you run it to the garage you will need to put in another wireless router. If there's no wire mess in the walls, it will probably resolve your signal loss. Just make sure you PW it.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.I think it would
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.plug an extender in out side the house on the back porch - if you have enough signal. When you plug it in it will tell you if the signal is strong enough to boost
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.I think an extender will help but not as much as Ethernet. I have tried several extenders and the Netgear AC750 has been the best yet, but still second to a direct connection.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.My house is built in 1948 and it is exactly made of the same old materials, this range extender will work perfectly.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.This will solve your problem and you won't have to run Ethernet cables everywhere. I located my Netgear AC750 about 80' away from my ATT U-Verse wireless modem and it picks up fine that far away and then it throws full signal strength another 80'. I now have NO signal loss 160' away from my ISP's wifi router! This thing is cool!
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Really only way is to have one to experiment with. After set up, you carry it around and plug it into different outlets and it indicates if the signal strength received is adequate before rebroadcasting.
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