re: Need router to cover my whole house

Environment determines how wifi behaves, I.e. Structure of house, size, and other signals/wireless sources. I would load a free wifi app on a phone or pad to see if there are any neighbors that could be interfering or maybe something in the house. Then u can get in a lesser used frequency. I found that my smart tv had an access point built in I wasn't aware of so I cut it off.

My Cisco small business router couldn't produce a strong signal from downstairs regardless of the frequency or type of external booster antenna I connected. I was going to replace the router with something else. I forgot what it was but it got good reviews. It had 6 antennas on it. Before I went that route I tried in English more thing. I got a hold of a business class Aruba access point from the office, LOL. Easy to just dhcp that thing on my router. Logged in an cranked it up to 30db in the 5ghz range. I no longer had issues. In fact I had to turn the strength back down because it killed my wireless access for my dish network joey receiver in another room. My house is about 2500sft.

Man you factors are in play here and more than one way to do it. I just got lucky with my solution and don't expect people to go out Andy get a 600$ access point.