Hello I hope this is a good place to ask if not can you point me where I need to go lol. Also im knew to a lot of this and trying to learn so bare with me if i say something dumb. Ive been doing hours of research but I figured I come to a wider source for opinions or answers. I’m currently have xfinity gigabit wifi but I’m struggling to get 50 -100Mbps in some places of my house. It’s a very old house 100+ years and it isn’t completely modernized yet but my wife and I are trying. So my questions are, are there any wifi extenders you would recommend? Or a different item you would recommend. I had xfinity over this week to replace my gateway they provide as it I was against a wall on the farthest most part of my house. They also replaced the gateway with there most updated version. Were trying to add a security system and some smart stuff around the house is why I’m asking.
A lot of this will depend on who is going to maintain this. Because there is cheap, fast and easy, but you can only pick two… I will tell you that what you have no is the cheapest crap they think they can get away with. The best way to do this is with a cable modem alone, a solid router with no WiFi, and WiFi access points wired throughout your house. But this is also more complex to manage. The easy way is an Orbi like system where you get an ecosystem based on mesh networking. This will slow you down, add latency, and can be a bear to troubleshoot when something goes wrong.
But the question is what are you willing and able to do?