So we've been hunkered down at my in-laws for the past month or so because of the quarantine and have been tolerating the terrible Wifi for some time, but it's starting to get on everybody's nerves. When we previously stayed here for an extended period, we used a powerline adapter, which was good enough, but now the mother-in-law is having to do WFH and she's realizing just how bad her Wifi has been. I was going to just buy the same Orbi system we have at our apartment:
But looking into things, it seems there are more powerful options out there, which may be required. This isn't an apartment, for instance. It's a house with a basement and steel everywhere. Our cell phones have dead zones all over the place and the Wifi is wildly inconsistent. It is set up in my father-in-law's office on the 2nd floor, and while it works for my laptop in the basement it doesn't work for my mother-in-law's laptop in the room next door. It also doesn't work on my 3DS just down the hall on the same floor. So I'm looking into a mesh network and now see that there are Wifi 6 options, which I didn't even know was a thing, and was wondering if people had experience with this.
Is it better to get a more powerful unit like this:
Or is it better to get something with 3 units like the one I first posted?
I don't mind buying something and returning if it doesn't work but because of the quarantine it just seems like such a hassle I'd rather avoid it if I could. So any suggestions or recommendations are greatly appreciated.
But looking into things, it seems there are more powerful options out there, which may be required. This isn't an apartment, for instance. It's a house with a basement and steel everywhere. Our cell phones have dead zones all over the place and the Wifi is wildly inconsistent. It is set up in my father-in-law's office on the 2nd floor, and while it works for my laptop in the basement it doesn't work for my mother-in-law's laptop in the room next door. It also doesn't work on my 3DS just down the hall on the same floor. So I'm looking into a mesh network and now see that there are Wifi 6 options, which I didn't even know was a thing, and was wondering if people had experience with this.
Is it better to get a more powerful unit like this:
Or is it better to get something with 3 units like the one I first posted?
I don't mind buying something and returning if it doesn't work but because of the quarantine it just seems like such a hassle I'd rather avoid it if I could. So any suggestions or recommendations are greatly appreciated.
