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Do routers lose wifi broadcast range?
Hi guys.
My router is located in my conservatory, built onto the side of my house. Effectively, this was outside the house before I built it.
For the past 3 years it has supplied my conservatory PC, printer, scanner and the main lounge TV perfectly well.
It has also supplied my other PC, upstairs in an office / bedroom via wifi to a usb dongle on the other PC.
Lately, I've been losing signal and now have wifi upstairs which is too poor to work at all.
I downloaded a signal strength meter onto my phone,
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It shows that I really do have dreadful signal strength upstairs at -70dB compared to -25dB standing next to the router.
I have 2 options:
I can move the router to a different place in the house (not easy because I use Cat5 cables for the conservatory PC and it's peripherals
I can try a brand new router that the ISP sent me last time I renewed my subscription (but it might mean changing the passwords on everything.
What do you advise, please?