I’m familiar with the absolute basics of networking, but very little surrounding wifi.

I’m current using the modem-router-AP provided by my ISP, along with a couple repeaters. This isn’t working well, and in areas of my house further away from my main AP, packet loss is often around 20% - near unusable. How should I improve this?

I can run some wires (within reason), and have multiple spare routers-APs to work with. I can also buy something new off the shelf if needed, but don’t want to spend more than I have to. What would be the approach I should use? Like, is there a particular type of extender I should be using, or can I use multiple routers as a mesh or something?

  • SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zipEnglish
    16·
    10 hours ago

    Ditch the repeaters. Unless you have a mansion, or a bunker, that sounds like the effect of WiFi congestion rather than distance. Repeaters mean that each packet has to hit the air twice, or more, increasing congestion. Deploy multiple APs around the house, and run ethernet cabling to them from the ISP’s router. Configure all the APs with the same SSID, and security settings, and client devices can roam freely between them.