Several options, but they all involve hardware:
1. Move the router to a more central place than the basement.
2. Buy an access point, put that on a central place in your house and connect it the router via power-line ethernet.
3. Buy a router with a stronger signal then the one you have now (certainly not the best solution, and maybe not at all).
Hello, I seem to have a weird internet connection problem with my home network. In my home the internet connection seems to be weak for all computers in most parts of the house except the basement room where the router is. The router is connected to a computer through Ethernet cable, and this computer seems to have the best and most stable connection of all. Above basement level the laptops and also the mac have connections that are feint or slow and aren't using an Ethernet cable. Even our cell phones that are connected to the home network have a feint or slow connection.
Connection for entire house only seems stable when right after calling Comcast and having them send a surge or whatever to my house, but its only temporary.
I know its not a hardware issue on the laptops part because when I took my laptop to a hotel in ocean city it worked fine with the hotel WiFi, but at my home it doesn’t have as strong as connection as my computer that is directly connected to the router in the basement.
I was wondering how to solve this and what could be the problem. I want all the computers/laptops/phones connected to our home comcast network to have good stable connection but it seems only the computer connected to the router with an ethernet cable has good stable connection.
Could it be because the router is really old? It’s like 10 yrs. old.
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