Hi there I need to try and figure out whether a wifi range extender would be suitable or any other suggestions.I live in a house that's been split into 2 places. The neighbours allowing us to share the wireless network connection but for certain devices they get average connections with multiple cut outs at times.The neighbours pc / wifi setup is in the exact opposite corner of the house too our lounge where it's most needed. I can get pretty good and constant connection to their network on my HP Netbook but it's a netbook so is sluggish and slow to open new pages and will not respond when I have more than a few pages open for long periods of time (sometimes minutes of unresponsiveness) which is frustrating. Our main pc in our lounge is a HTPC connected to a 50 inch tv and we do all our media viewing and everything else through this. The coverage for the xbox connected to the tv is fine as is our cellphone coverage (tolerable) but the HTPC is just intermittent and having it cut out when trying to load webpages or download stuff is annoying (plus obvious windows update take forever).So my question is would a wifi range extender eg a Netgear N300 wireless range extender in our bedroom (closest jack points to the neighbours pc) do the trick or can I use something like this connected to the HTPC http://laptopbattery.co.nz/Networking-and-internet/Bluetooth/AC1200-Wireless-Dual-Band-USB-Adapter-LBN51525.htm and would it do a better job.Any other suggestions are appreciated. There's some good specials this weekend so hopefully gonna get the chance to do something about it at a good price.Cheers.
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