Good WiFi in home

Most people setup their in home systems and for Wifi buy a single Wifi router and forget it. This system can work okay in smaller homes but is not always the most effective as a home gets larger or more devices are used.

I have been dealing with that lately and have a better solution. I use wireless access points.

Running cable in a home can be a pain but running just one or two, while a pain may be worth it. For our home I recently set up an access point in the living room for our wireless printer and a HTPC. The result has been a strong and stable internet connection for the wireless devices.

A second wireless access point will be setup at the opposite end of the house to ensure maximum coverage.

To make this work I have made sure each access point has it's own SSID and password. Each device has been given access to all of the access points I have in the house with the strongest signal being the primary.

This means if a device has issues with it's primary access point it can switch to one of the others and does so automatically. The result is seamless internet access for my devices.

The cost for this BTW is fairly low as you can find low cost access points for around $30. High quality access points can be found for around $70 but these often can be wall or ceiling mounted so they look good in any room.

If you do not want to run the cable another option is to use range extenders. These are simple devices that just plug into the wall and attach to your existing wifi and then re-transmit the signal. A few of these strategically placed can give your home better coverage.

Which solution is better? I personally prefer the multi access points. These are not dependent on the wifi of your router and provide different actually access so they can split the load of the wifi a bit more.

Either method however will improve your homes wifi experience and allow gaming rigs to be used in any room of the house without always needing to run a cable.

While the above talks about using WiFi I do not ever believe WiFi is the preferred method for hooking up an online gaming rig. If you will be gaming online I suggest always trying to find a way to get a hard line connection