Internet / extension coverage of house/ADU
Hello! We are struggling to get our internet to work at the back of our house. Our house had an addition put on to the back (with a bedroom) in 2000. Therefore there is an exterior wall in the middle of the house. We suspect that this is part of the problem, and potentially people who have an adu where they have internet coming from the primary house would be able to provide advice on a good extension or other technique to get the internet to cover a large portion of the property. We currently have an extender, but it seems to have spotty coverage and we often go for minutes or hours where we can't get good internet coverage of the back of the house, challenging for working at home. Thanks!
Jun 27, 2021
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The best thing you could do is to run ethernet to the back part of the house. Nothing beats hard-wired internet.
Alternatively get a wireless network system like Google Nest.
I switched from Comcast to Sonic and they installed an Eero “mesh” system. My rear office is beautifully served and I plug my work laptop right into the remote mesh device and have >200bps back there. I, too, tried a plug-in extender which helped but mot much. Good Luck!
I have an ADU in my backyard and I got it to work great with a google mesh system. I had to buy 3 “points”—They’re $60 each so I initially tried to get away with one based on the square foot range stated by google. But I guess because of the exterior walls, I needed one at the front of my house (where it plugs in), one at the back, and one in the ADU. Works great, I use the ADU as my office and have no issues with zoom calls, downloads, etc.
Hi,
we tried extenders too but it didn’t work well. I highly recommend a mesh system. We use google mesh (now nest?)and we live in a duplex and share wifi.
You just need a mesh system like Eero - we have a longer, older house and it works really well for us - good luck!