Huge wifi issues, please help.

[sindroms]

Okay, so this is how the layout of the building looks like.




TL;DR, the PC in the bottom room has very poor wifi coverage, since I have no real way how to get a cable from the first room to the second. I do, however, have a spare router.

What I wanted to do is to simply use it as an adapter.
However, I have no experience in routers.

This is what I want to do:




Basically, I cannot find the right tutorial for this.
The ones I seem to find are related to repeaters or something, which involve connecting the end machine with a wireless connection, but I am doing that with a regular cable. So basically my PC will connect to the second router with a regular cable and the router will connect to the other as the client.


I just have no idea which settings and values go where. Derp.




Help.

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[d5c99831b]

What you're trying to achieve (based on the "This is what I want to do:") is configure a wireless network bridge.
Without any technical information, equipment specifications or network information/configuration details I cannot help you, however installing->configuring a bridge is easy.
Consumer level routers are capable of acting as a wireless bridge but many do not have the option available in their manufacturer provided firmware, dig around the settings and user manuals of both routers to find out if the manufacturers included this option.
The alternative is to install 3rd party router firmware, DD-WRT and OpenWRT are the most popular projects and will allow you to setup/configure a bridge if the manufacturer firmware does not. DD-WRT is the better option just check the device compatibility and back up the the configurations of your routers before installing DD-WRT or OpenWRT.
From then on the huge community support and straight-forwardness of the router firmware will make it easy to setup a wireless bridge even if you have little to no knowledge of network configuration/operation.

Good luck and hopefully the password reset link for my actual account gets through after 3 days of a waiting!.

[sindroms]

Thanks for the reply.
In the end, I said "SCREW THIS" and bought 48m of internet cable and rammed it through 2 walls to get to that room.


Worth it.

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PSA: If you have been having stutter/FPS lag on Disco where it does not run as smoothly as other games, please look at the fix here: https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthrea...pid2306502
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[Stoner_Steve]

Thanks for the reply.
In the end, I said "SCREW THIS" and bought 48m of internet cable and rammed it through 2 walls to get to that room.


Worth it.

Can this be put on a poster somewhere? I would buy it

[nOmnomnOm]

Thanks for the reply.
In the end, I said "SCREW THIS" and bought 48m of internet cable and rammed it through 2 walls to get to that room.


Worth it.

you have no idea how hard i laughed...

[d5c99831b]

You have made the best choice, cables are cheap, easy to install and provide and maintain the best performance!
Take proper care of the cable, if the plastic jacket or sheath becomes worn or tears at any point wrap the area in good strong tape (I use cloth adhesive tape)
I've run a 100m ethernet cable across the length of my house through the roof/attic during the height of summer (40c+) just to escape the torture of using WiFi.

[meoshi]

Reminds me of what i did. I couldn't stand using wifi and i didnt have a 100 footer so i went down to the pawn shop and got 2 50ft cords and spliced them together.

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[dirmaster0]

You could have used Ethernet Over Power Adapters, basically you plug a cable from the main router to the adapter plugged into a wall outlet, then another in your room with a cable running to your computer, uses the pre-existing power lines to transmit an ethernet signal (mimicking the RJ45)--But you can still get some interference w/ other electrical appliances on the same circuit, and theyve only really gotten the theoretical speeds to around 600 MBPS transfer rate, although obtaining that high of a transfer rate depends on so many variables.
If you were configuring a wireless bridge its best practice to use the same equipment (having the same router as the origination point) so they "play nice" together as a network. But in opposition to the wifi bridge, having all that traffic between rooms will certainly lead to latency, and loud wireless signal noise going all over which could potentially interfere with others nearby if theyre on the same broadcast frequency.
Nothing beats cable from the source though

[sindroms]

EOPA's wouldn't have worked for me, because the two parts of the house are hooked up to two different boxes. The top part is my store and the bottom is my house, so they have two different contracts concerning power usage.

But yeah, the problem was that I was sitting on a constant 2-5% lag over wifi. Needless to say, it was annoying as hell, so the extra effort was worth it. But holy carp, the thickness of the walls was beyond what I expected. 80cm in thickness with filling in the middle. I had to take a steel round bar, make the tip sharp and connect it to my drill just so I could get through, since all of my drill bits were physically not long enough.

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PSA: If you have been having stutter/FPS lag on Disco where it does not run as smoothly as other games, please look at the fix here: https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthrea...pid2306502
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