re: Wifi Extender or Access Point to alleviate bad Wifi connection in home?

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Ubiquiti

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I have used these a bit in a few office/enterprise setups. I've never had to set them up personally, but from what I hear its pretty easy to do anything from easy simple setups to fancy mesh networks, etc. For home, its probably not necessary, especially if it's cost prohibitive (never looked up prices), but unless its expensive I'd imagine it would be a decent option if you have a good bit of APs you want to set up.

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To the OP-- if you have multiple network drops in your house or in some other orderly way could run ethernet from one standard WIFI router to another, you can just connect the two, probably just using the standard LAN ports (maybe not the WAN depending on the model and config), make one router the "master" that handles DHCP (disabling the other), change the IP of the second one to something on the same network, give them both the same Wifi names and security settings and for the most part, thats all you need to be able to float your wireless devices between APs. It's pretty seamless as in you don't need to disconnect/reconnect, you just stay connected to whichever one is closest essentially. The process isn't hard; nothing a little googling can't show you. Look up settings for your specific models to make it easier.