Poor wifi range

[wedalan]

I’m helping with a friends xpl3000 basic . It’s only a 2.4 ghz unit. He’s on 25 MB’s /sec service from te1us using a T3200 router. The router is the latest greatest that te1us uses.

Due to the poor wifi It just barely gets a connection and doesn’t stream fast enough to run tv.

He doesn’t have a way to connect to the router with a hard wire, so that’s out.

I have used my own xpl3000 to trouble shoot and it’s dual band capable. It pulls a steady stream on 2.4 (with minor buffering) but on 5g it’s solid.

So?

Without using extenders or any other changes to wiring on router location, is their any “home brew” ways of improving the signal strength to get his 3000 basic working well?


Cheers

[Zorro]

I’m helping with a friends xpl3000 basic . It’s only a 2.4 ghz unit. He’s on 25 MB’s /sec service from te1us using a T3200 router. The router is the latest greatest that te1us uses.

Due to the poor wifi It just barely gets a connection and doesn’t stream fast enough to run tv.

He doesn’t have a way to connect to the router with a hard wire, so that’s out.

I have used my own xpl3000 to trouble shoot and it’s dual band capable. It pulls a steady stream on 2.4 (with minor buffering) but on 5g it’s solid.

So?

Without using extenders or any other changes to wiring on router location, is their any “home brew” ways of improving the signal strength to get his 3000 basic working well?


Cheers

When Basics were being sold there was a USB Wifi Antenna that worked with it
But am not sure if dealers have any left. You can contact World Wide Satellites to see if they have any left

Or

My best suggestion would be to get some Powerline Adapters and use them to connect the box via Ethernet/Hardwire.

[Terryl]

There is not much you can do to the router to extend it's range by any ""Home Brew"" setups, as there is no external antenna port on that router to add a higher gain antenna, nor anything you can do internally by it's software configuration, so your stuck with either a power line setup as Zorro mentioned, or a range extender somewhere between the router and your XPL3000.

I recommend one of these.


https://www.amazon.com/slp/wifi-boosters-for-the-house/kcm98cg3aynx46z