Extenders

[clok1966]

I recently built a new unattached garage, its about 100 feet from my house. The garage is centered on wall my wireless router is on in my house. When i set garage up i have have an Extender in garage which shows all bars, and it has a cat5 (connected to extender) in roof to other side of garage which goes into my PC. Problem is this extender is very flaky, it works fine, then no connection (shows its connected to my router) but i cant keep the wifi (tablets, phones) or the direct connect PC online. At first I was thinking it was a bad extender ( I have used 3 and they all do the same exact thing, all different brands) then i thought it was a IP thing as once and awhile i saw same IP in use errors. SO i set the extender to a specific IP that would never be reached. I thought this may have solve it.. but now its doing it again (and the iP is still set). Power cycling seems to help but its driving me nuts. In the garage there is nothing close to the Extender to harass it, in the house the Router has been doing fine wireless on all other devices so i cant see it be effected by anything either. Cable company is no fun so I cant get into router to look at settings. Googleing has been no help it sems most extenders work great. I'm at a loss on what to try. The only thing i can think of is we have another extender in the house (my house is long) and it works fine (no issues with this one), they both have their own names so there should be no conflict on that, but I wonder. I thought maybe channel but since i cant get in router that option seems unavailable. Im on Midco, anybody know if i can just replace their router with my own? I did alot with DSL in the past, but no idea on Midco and how they handle stuff.

 

[sdifox]

What extender are you using and have you done a recent site wifi survey in your garage?

 

[clok1966]

I have used

NETGEAR N300 this one works the worst.
Linksys AC1200 this is the one i am currently using,
Belkin N600 this one

I have all three and can swap test whatever.. they all seem to work almost the same (which makes me feel its external problem).

wifi survey, no.. but each extender has a setup Example: plug unit in aand let it find signal, if its green you are in good range, yellow you are out of range, red, no signal, or other things.. all are green (as in good range).

Looks like Netspot is free for home use I will give it a shot, Im so frustrated. I just dont get it. I Dont use the extender i can hook my laptop up and be in back of my garage with 2 bars and never lose it, its just slow.. i hook extender up and it works on and off. I stream movies sometimes, with no extender i cant, when the extender works i can.. driving me nuts.

 

[sdifox]

You have a tablet no? There are many wifi scanners you can use to figure out signal situation in your trouble spot. Extenders are iffy at best.

I would get a pair of ubiquiti nanostations to form a wifi bridge.