How to get higher WiFi speeds out in garage/man cave

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#204606 9-Oct-2016 12:05

I'm on 1Gbps fibre with a Huawei HG659 modem in my house. I have a Cat 6 cable running under the house to my garage so I can get similar speeds in my garage, but only over ethernet.

I want to get high WiFi speeds in my garage/man cave so I can use my Chromecast. Currently I'm only getting 10Mbps out in the garage.

I was thinking of getting another Huawei HG659 out in my garage to create a strong WiFi signal there.

Anyone one got a simple/cheap way to get better WiFi out in my garage?

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Jase2985

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#1647940 9-Oct-2016 12:20

Dynamic:

Is it practical to run a network cable from the inside router to the garage? Connecting a second router or an access point ot that would give an ideal result.

already has that

just needs a seconds device, turn DCHP off, set the wifi up, give the device a static ip address (recommended but not necessary), and connect a lan cable to the lan port of the device.

should be good to go

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#1660969 30-Oct-2016 15:59

You can try turning down the tx power level on each router to create smaller cells of coverage. This will force your roaming device to switch sooner - but you will get about 10 seconds of downtime as you transition while the roaming device switches to the newly stronger base station.

Each roaming device has a hard coded "stickyness" setting. because of the 10 seconds of transition they try not to switch AP so often otherwise if you are sitting right in the middle it would be constantly changing.

In some windows laptops you can change the hardware settings in the device manager to adjust the stickyness depending upon the wifi chipset but that wont help android or mac devices

So you are best to cut down the power level of the routers wifi output.

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