I am getting a Tesla and need to have a good wifi signal in my garage. Right now it does not seem to be that strong, maybe 2 bars on my Kindle Fire.
My house is about 50 feet end to end. The garage is under the main floor at one end of the house. The family room with the cable modem that does wifi is on the other end on the main floor, about 12 feet from the far wall.
I ordered a small NetGear wifi extender that plugs into a wall socket and has a couple antennas.
The signal seems to be about 4 or 5 bars in the part of the basement that is 5 or 10 feet away from the cable modem (but one floor down).
Should I try to put the booster in the end of the basement that seems to get a decent signal, or should I put the booster on the other end of the main floor that is over the garage?
At first I thought I could buy an extender with an ethernet port and run a cable to the basement but the one I was looking at only used the port to connect the extender to a computer.
Would and alternative be to run the cable and get some sort of wifi unit that I plug onto the ethernet network? Would that be a different wifi network from the one that the cable modem provides? Would such a device conflict with the cable modem wifi?
Thanks.
Joe
My house is about 50 feet end to end. The garage is under the main floor at one end of the house. The family room with the cable modem that does wifi is on the other end on the main floor, about 12 feet from the far wall.
I ordered a small NetGear wifi extender that plugs into a wall socket and has a couple antennas.
The signal seems to be about 4 or 5 bars in the part of the basement that is 5 or 10 feet away from the cable modem (but one floor down).
Should I try to put the booster in the end of the basement that seems to get a decent signal, or should I put the booster on the other end of the main floor that is over the garage?
At first I thought I could buy an extender with an ethernet port and run a cable to the basement but the one I was looking at only used the port to connect the extender to a computer.
Would and alternative be to run the cable and get some sort of wifi unit that I plug onto the ethernet network? Would that be a different wifi network from the one that the cable modem provides? Would such a device conflict with the cable modem wifi?
Thanks.
Joe