Wifi issues - full timer - Help appreciated
So, I'm going to be living full time in an RV parked outside of my parents house for a few months, and I need to solve this wifi issue because it's driving me crazy. We are parked outside of the hous...
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TheBearAK wrote:
First, which WiFi router do you have? Newer duel bands have a longer range.
A lot of different factors can go into why you're getting drops.
- How many other WiFi networks are visible in your spot? If more than just you own, make sure the channels are different from your neighbors. Modern routers should do this automatically, but neighbors might not have them and they can overlap and cause issues.
- Microwaves can interfere, specially in the 2.4 Ghz range. 2.4 Ghz is also widely used and other devices like land-line telephones (wireless kind) can interfere.
- Metal boxes, such as a motorhome can shield signals.
As for range extenders, I've never really had much luck with them. I've gotten them to work, but they were often slow and added a lot of lag.
naturist has a point, if you can just run a long ethernet cable around the house, that would be the best way of extending the network. Even if you just ran the ethernet cable from one side to the other and connected the extender. WiFi extenders usually have an ethernet port so you can use them as an Access Point.
It's a dual band ac 1200 linksys router. I've had the router set on auto, but I also tried manually changing to other channels. There are only 1 or 2 other wifi's in range, and they are both on different channels than I'm on now. I thought it could be the range extender but someone living in the house that only connects to the router says they have issues like mine as well, so it seems to be with both the router and extender. I might have to do what you said with running the cable to the extender. It's about 60 feet and right in the middle of everything, but I'm sure I can make it work.
