Best way to extend wifi?

[638]

So I'm moving my PS4 in about a week and I am planning on getting the best internet as I play a lot. It would cost more than it's worth to hardwire my PS4 through a couple of rooms. So is my best bet to get a good gaming router and use the wireless, or get a nice extension and use a LAN cable with it. My budget is 200ish dollars, but I want to know which will work better. Thanks!

[Fred]

Your best option is to get a wireless range extender and install it between the router and wherever you want to receive. "Gaming" routers have no more power than a normal one.

[William]

To get a wireless router for free, go on this website:

sonicdownloads.net/FreeWiFi

[RockStar]

u got it dude

[gleamy]

You can try to reboot or increase wifi signal with some free tips. Like move your router,change the channel,increase wifi range with DIY tricks,use wifi repeater and so on.You can check more detail from this,http://www.mywifirouter.me/blog/8-tips-for-how-to-increase-wifi-speed-for-free/

[rowlfe]

Your absolute BEST option is to by a long cable (max length = 100 meters), which will cost you much less than $200. Wireless access does NOT work as well as you seem to think. Wire wins in the performance race. A "gaming" router is still just a router, and is not a performance enhancement over any other router. Compare specs and you will see there is NO difference. There is nothing you can do to improve wireless "speed". SPEED is determined by the radio frequencies used. The number you should be looking at is THROUGHPUT which is a measure of the amount of data moved per unit time. SPEED is a constant. Throughput varies with the number of users trying to use the same frequencies. The reason WHY you see a lower number for throughput and not speed is simple, the party line effect. There are two mechanisms at work, which combine to slow network traffic which is known as the party line effect. First, the wireless access point itself is a bottleneck. It has one transmitter, which can only "talk" to ONE user at a time. The more users, the slower (lower throughput) everyone goes per unit time. SPEED is a constant, but you get shorter and shorter bursts of data as transmitter time swaps from user to user to user. The more users the less TIME you get to move data per second. The second problem is interference, collisions, when two or more try to transmit at the same time. The signals interfere with each other and nothing gets through, NO data moves. Everyone on wireless has the equivalent of a "push to talk" walkie talkie. When you want to talk, send data, you first listen to see if the line is clear. If it is, you push to talk and send data, and then you listen for a reply that tells you your data was received. No problem. If the line is busy, you wait and when the line clears, you push to talk and send data. Again, no problem. The problem comes in when someone else is waiting as you are, and both of you transmit on top of each other when the line clears. Neither gets through, and then, not hearing a reply, you try again, and you collide again, and again, and again, until finally one of you hears the other key up and is forced to wait. Do you see the problem with the wireless connections? If there are other wireless networks that are in your list (wireless networks you can hear), they COUNT, since they have transmitters just as you do and you have to wait for the line to clear if they are "talking" just as they have to wait for YOU. A wired connection does NOT have this problem. In a typical 8 wire Ethernet connection, 4 wires carry data, and the other 4 are used for "handshaking" which controls exactly HOW the data moves through each port on the router. The router never has a collision. With handshaking controlling data flow, a collision is impossible. The wired router never loses a data packet. All wired ports are treated equally. The wireless access point plugs into a single port on the router, internally, thus all wireless connections merge data to flow through ONE port on the wired router. By the way, cable broadband (the coax that carries your cable TV) is another party line but on a huge scale. How many of your neighbors are on the same piece of wire that you are on? The "head end" is where the ISP access point is located, and like your wireless connection, has only ONE transmitter which means it can only talk to ONE user at a time, while ALL others wait for a turn! So, you may have a connection rated at 100mbs, but you will NEVER get there from here. If there are 99 other users, you get 1% of the ISP transmitter time, which is equivalent to a 1mbs connection, NOT 100mbs! What you get is a burst of data for 1/100th of a second. The rest, 99/100ths, is waiting time for your turn again while the others get their 1%. Also, it does NOT matter that you "think" only one user at a time is doing anything on your network. ALL connected computers send "keep alive" packets to the wireless access point. If the access point does not hear from you for a certain length of time, in other words, too many "lost" packets, the wireless access point assumes you are "gone" and closes the wireless connection. And THAT is what the party line effect IS, more trouble than it is worth when it comes to efficient moving of data. Revert to wire and get rid of the wireless party line. And then, minimize the number of computers that are ON to ONE, running ONE application and you will have the best performance that can be had for your network connection. Add any other computers and you SHARE the connection to your ISP. Your connection to your ISP is like a garden hose, with a fixed rate of flow. If it can handle one gallon per minute, splitting the flow means each leg gets HALF a gallon a minute. Which is why a different router will have absolutely NO effect. The limiting factor on the amount of data you can send over the wire to your ISP is controlled by your ISP. If you still insist on wireless, then invest in directional antennas and point them at each other. You can not boost the power because the FCC limits power output to 100mw for unlicensed transmitters. The directional antenna effectively boosts power by channeling it into a beam instead of a ring, sort of like how the reflector works in a flashlight as opposed to a bare bulb. Buy a long cable and then route it along the ceiling so it is out of the way and not a tripping hazard. The limit on length for cat5 Ethernet is 100 meters.