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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?

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[–] ski11erboi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Bought an Asus Mesh wifi system for my 1,800 sq. ft house. Put them on opposite ends and I don't have a single corner with bad coveragge. I feel confident it would still for work well for a much bigger house. I had done a little research and this was what I came up with as the best quality for the price. I had to watch a YouTube walk through to set it up but it's not overly complicated as long as you're patient. Could probably find the video if you ended up needing it.

Don't judge me I did buy it off Amazon but it was well before the election and boycotts. https://a.co/d/0dOCQqFM