I moved to a new home two summers back, and it's significantly bigger than my last residence. I have been trying to get WiFi to work well in the new place, but I'm finding difficulty trying to have it be reliable.
The house is two floors, about 2500 square feet, plus a finished basement. My modem comes in on the main floor, at one end of the house. I connect it to an ASUS Black Knight router AC68u.
My office is in the basement at the polar opposite end of the house from where the AC68u is. Our home theatre is in the basement directly beneath where the AC68u is situated, so I have a Netgear wireless AC dual band bridge in the home theatre....probably about 8 feet below the AC68u, through the floor.
I have significant problems getting a signal to be strong enough from the AC68u to the office. So last year I added an Amped Wireless Titan EX7000 repeater, which is on the main floor directly above the office.
That seemed to work for about a year. However, increasingly, I'm finding my devices searching when I move around the house, randomly disconnecting......or they show that they are connected but not receiving Internet.
To try and fix the situation, I've taken the EX7000 and moved it to the middle of the main floor. Unfortunately, that's the kitchen. So the router is sitting on the island in the middle of our kitchen. My wife does not like me since I did this, so I need another solution.
I've been looking at devices like the Orbi and the Velop, with both reviewed well on this site....but reading the forums, I've seen people comment about the firmware for the Orbi being "a hot mess" and to avoid it right now. That seems to directly contradict what the reviews indicate.
Could something like Velop or Orbi conceivably help me solve this problem?
The house is two floors, about 2500 square feet, plus a finished basement. My modem comes in on the main floor, at one end of the house. I connect it to an ASUS Black Knight router AC68u.
My office is in the basement at the polar opposite end of the house from where the AC68u is. Our home theatre is in the basement directly beneath where the AC68u is situated, so I have a Netgear wireless AC dual band bridge in the home theatre....probably about 8 feet below the AC68u, through the floor.
I have significant problems getting a signal to be strong enough from the AC68u to the office. So last year I added an Amped Wireless Titan EX7000 repeater, which is on the main floor directly above the office.
That seemed to work for about a year. However, increasingly, I'm finding my devices searching when I move around the house, randomly disconnecting......or they show that they are connected but not receiving Internet.
To try and fix the situation, I've taken the EX7000 and moved it to the middle of the main floor. Unfortunately, that's the kitchen. So the router is sitting on the island in the middle of our kitchen. My wife does not like me since I did this, so I need another solution.
I've been looking at devices like the Orbi and the Velop, with both reviewed well on this site....but reading the forums, I've seen people comment about the firmware for the Orbi being "a hot mess" and to avoid it right now. That seems to directly contradict what the reviews indicate.
Could something like Velop or Orbi conceivably help me solve this problem?