Question about Internet Signal

[TwiztidRoman]

I rent an apartment above my parents garage where I have Verizon High speed internet. My parents use the same internet, what we did was hooked a router downstairs to the router upstairs with an ethernet cable. We buried the cable thinking that the cold wouldn't affect it as bad, but it just stopped working today. Is there an easier way to hook up the internet downstairs?

 

[Simon]

What two routers are you using? Where exactly is this cable burried?

 

[Skooze]

It may help to know the distance between the two routers as well.

As for the buried cable. how far down did you bury it? (ground expands as it freezes due to the water content). Is it in a conduit?

 

[TwiztidRoman]

The distance between the routers was around 50 feet. We buried it in the plastic stretchy tubing you use for above ground pools, it was like a couple inches underground. We actually did this before but didn't bury it and it seemed to last longer unburied. The upstairs modem (sorry thought it was a router) is a verizon actiontec and the downstairs is a netgear

 

[FireHazard772]

I'm assuming the actiontec is PK5000? (usually a default one for ISP's

Also what model is the netgear?

 

[TwiztidRoman]

I dont see anything about PK5000 but the model number is GT784WNV

 

[TwiztidRoman]

The router is a Netgear N600 Model number WNDR34000v2

 

[TwiztidRoman]

Any suggestions?

 

[Crashpilot1001]

If those rooms are on the same powerline you can use Powerline-Adaptors. I bought a pair of very cheap (I think the kit was 50€ or less) TP-Link TL-PA251 some years ago and they still work very good. I see a ping increase in my setting with those adaptors of 1-2ms.

 

[TwiztidRoman]

By same power line do you mean that we share the same power bill?

 

[He@d$hoT]

We lived in a rural area, the modem and router were actually located in the finished section of our pole barn, a couple hundred feet away from the house. We ran a line from the router to the roof of the pole barn and had an outdoor wifi range extender on a pole, on the roof. Then, we had a repeater inside the house, just in case, although we had no signal trouble with the range extender, so we never really needed the repeater. Just an option if you have problems in the winter with the line.

 

[TwiztidRoman]

Can you recommend a good range extender?

 

[glamdring-]

If you have two routers or pickup a relatively cheap one most can be configured to work as range extenders or better yet as a bridge. When using bridge mode you have the NAT disabled and it is just an extension of the network. For optimal configuration I'd pickup a wireless router that shows the connection strengths in the UI, so you know if you have a good point to point connection. If it's a poor connection look into picking up some cheap directional antennas, I have used $12 cheap ones from Amazon to get the trick done in the past. Most range extenders cost more and give you less options, but they are plug and play if configuring a router is not your cup of tea.

If you want to go with a wired connection 50ft will be no problem, but make sure you are using outdoor grade cable.

 

[Mr_B]

If the power comes from the same circuit breaker as the house +1 for power line extenders. It will be far more reliable than wifi extenders. Worst case is you add a wireless router (in bridged/AP) mode from the Ethernet port of the power line adapter. I did that in my living room and have much more reliable wireless since I'm going through 4 concrete walls.