Recently moved into a two story house (~3,400 sq ft). I have an Asus RT-AX82U router but have trouble getting wifi in the opposite corner of the house from where the router is and that happens to be my gameroom where we will watch tv and/or play video games. Any suggestions for an affordable wifi extender?

Been lots of posts like these recently. Almost everyone is going to chime in with "Upgrade to a mesh network" response.

And I would agree with that 100%. Especially because you have TV & Gaming in one room... a mesh network will allow you to place one of the nodes in the TV room and hard wire your gaming device and TV into it. This will give you MUCH better results than wifi (specifically with gaming). I have a 3,000 sqft single story and I have a mesh network with 3 nodes in my house. This not only gives us hard wire points where needed, but no wifi dead zones in the house and we even have really great coverage outside the house as well.

This is what I have and it's been awesome. It pretty much just works all the time and it's extremely rare if you have to do anything with it such as reboot a node. Set it up and forget about it. They are a few years old now so there might be a newer/better model out there now.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B085Z35GY6/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1

Awesome, that is super helpful!

Is mesh an add on? Or literally just buy these nodes and sync them with my router and I am good to go? Seems like I could probably just get buy with buying one as it is literally just one room that I am having an issue with

If you don't want new mesh (it is best though), powerline ethernet kit and an access point would be second best. Dont use a repeater, especially for a game room.

rwhitlock3 said:

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Awesome, that is super helpful!

Is mesh an add on? Or literally just buy these nodes and sync them with my router and I am good to go? Seems like I could probably just get buy with buying one as it is literally just one room that I am having an issue with

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Mesh requires routers specific to it. Just replace you asus with the entire kit.

jr15aggie said:

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This is what I have and it's been awesome. It pretty much just works all the time and it's extremely rare if you have to do anything with it such as reboot a node. Set it up and forget about it. They are a few years old now so there might be a newer/better model out there now.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B085Z35GY6/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1

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Yep, this is the exact one I have and it's been rock solid. Covers my multifloor house (two nodes on the basement level) which connects to the third node in the workshop in the back of the property. Pretty much the entire acre coverage with those 3 nodes. Highly recommend.

rwhitlock3 said:

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Awesome, that is super helpful!

Is mesh an add on? Or literally just buy these nodes and sync them with my router and I am good to go? Seems like I could probably just get buy with buying one as it is literally just one room that I am having an issue with

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So you will need at minimum two of them. One will hard wire connect to your modem (like your current router does, which you won't need anymore) and the others will wirelessly communicate directly with that main node.

Each node will usually have 2 wired connections (except for the main node, which will only have 1 because the other is connected to the modem) and each node will also put out it's own wifi signal. This way your devices, like phones, can always connect to the closest node and get the best signal. The cool part is you only have 1 wifi name, your devices will auto connect to the node with the best signal.

So for you, at minimum, get 2... One at the modem and the other in your TV/Game room. As an example, in my house we have the main node in the living room, 1 node in my sons room for his PC Gaming, and 1 more in our TV room where I also play Xbox. So full house coverage and we also get a great signal out back by the pool or in the front yard/ garage area. For a 2 story 3400 sqft house, I would definitely get 3. Depending on line of sight and where the main node plugs in, having 2 downstairs will probably give you a better communication path to the 1 upstairs.