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[megashock5]

Here's the scenario I'm in:

I have internet/cable/phone bundled and the modem and router are in a room on the second floor of my house - mainly because that's where my desktop machine is and it's the one place where a cable and phone outlet are near each other.

My PS4 is set up in a finished basement and the wi-fi is very weak, at least for the PS4. It seems to work okay for phones, laptops, 360, etc., but when I do the connection test on PS4 I get about 1.5K per second. Not good.

I originally solved this by getting a TP-Link powerline adapter. Plugged one straight into the router by ethernet cable and the other in the basement hooked into the PS4 by ethernet cable. This has worked for the last year and a half, roughly. Not terribly fast, but pretty reliable.

Recently the two powerline modules kept disconnecting from each other and the pair buttons weren't working. Downloaded the TP-Link utility and used that to reset and connect them. Worked sporadically, but I kept having to redo it. Now, that doesn't even work - the utility can't even find the one that's plugged directly into the router.

I'm at my wits end, here. I'm going to try moving the modem and router to the first floor to get better wifi in the basement, but there's not a place with the cable and phone outlet close enough to make a good long-term solution.

I can try another powerline adapter, but I feel like that's a crapshoot.

I can try buying a wifi extender, that's probably a crapshoot too.

Is it possible to buy a second modem and put it in the basement, then run ethernet from it to the PS4? Can two modems in one house work like that or will that cause problems?

Any Gaffers know about this stuff? What's my best course of action here?

Any help is greatly appreciated. At the moment I have to disconnect the PS4 and take everything two floors up to do updates.

 

[DrROBschiz]

If you are going to do all that work then just find a way to run an ethernet line down the walls

Otherwise the easiest solution is to hop online and read product reviews for a replacement powerline adapter

 

[megashock5]

If you are going to do all that work then just find a way to run an ethernet line down the walls

Otherwise the easiest solution is to hop online and read product reviews for a replacement powerline adapter

I would totally try to make that work if they weren't also at opposite ends of the house. There's nothing that's good about this setup, but I'm not coming up with a good way to fix it, unfortunately. It's weird, other wifi devices work okay in the basement. My wife's home office is down there and she has a Mac and PC that both work fine.

 

[DoubleTake]

I recently had to reset my TP-Link adapters for some odd reason. Had set up a static IP and everything. All of a sudden I couldnt connect to the internet even though the adapters seemed to be working and the connection test would always successfully obtain the IP address but fail at connecting to the internet(Nat Type would Fail too).

Best I can tell you is to go into your router settings and see if anythings changed, assuming you did any fiddling like I did. What I found out is that the ports that I opened and Static Nat wasnt properly working but there was a new UPnP connection that did. Had to uncheck/delete my old port assignments and exclusively use the UPnP ports for everything to work properly.

 

[Squozen]

Two modems absolutely won't work. Well, they would if you had two phone lines and two DSL accounts.

 

[Morinaga]

You could try an ethernet to WifI bridge. Basically its a device that acts kinda like an external Wifi adapter, but instead of using USB it uses an ethernet connection.

I know TPlink and netgear have done these before.

edit: Actually you could add another wireless router to your main router and basically subnet the things. That will at least give you the option of having another wireless network which you could possibly move near the basement.
http://www.online-tech-tips.com/computer-tips/setup-a-second-wireless-router-on-your-home-network/ .

 

[megashock5]

edit: Actually you could add another wireless router to your main router and basically subnet the things. That will at least give you the option of having another wireless network which you could possibly move near the basement.
http://www.online-tech-tips.com/computer-tips/setup-a-second-wireless-router-on-your-home-network/ .

See, this intrigues me. My main router is an Apple Airport Extreme, but I have an old original Airport sitting around. I just goes up to G, not N, but if I could at least use it to test the idea then I'd be willing to buy another router if it works.