tim... wrote:
Some of you may have seen in another place that I am having trouble with
my wireless connections in the house


If you're made of money, you can fix this by drilling zero holes.

They're called mesh routers. The author of this article,
works at Arstechnica today.

https://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wire...viewed?start=3

(This article is a bit silly. Not all the articles are keepers.)

https://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wire...system-secrets

On some of these kinds of sites, it's better to search them
from Google, than use their local search. Google for

site:smallnetbuilder.com mesh router review

and Google will dig up more examples.

Price-wise, think of it as "buying 3 routers of a special type".
A waste of money, except if money is not an issue.

Sometimes, pulling wire just isn't an option, depending on
what's in the walls.

What you'd want, is backhaul done on 5GHz, leaving 2.4GHz
for "the usual" 802.11N stuff in the computers themselves.
Usually the computer end is behind the times. But 5GHz
doesn't penetrate walls all that well, and if it does both
backhaul and normal communications on 2.4GHz, then things
could be a bit choppy.

There are also repeaters and access points. Perhaps running
an extension cable is easier in the basement, to some
sort of Wifi solution, then "point" the Wifi antenna
towards the first floor. If the device has removable
antennas, you can use a directional antenna to
reach the first floor (that's if your first attempt to
reach the first floor, didn't work). There may be
a solution in three dimensions you can dream up, to
reach an "inaccessible" spot.

There is also power line networking. But that's pretty low
on my list. Spraying 2.4GHz and 5GHz is better, because
those bands are already a write-off from an RF perspective.

Paul