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Old 12-17-2022, 08:16 AM
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Owned a Lantana for 17 years and suffered the same problem for at least 10-12. We used the front bedroom as a den and that’s where our “big TV” and computer were located. I’ll bet I had dozens of calls to Comcast before I finally stumbled on the inexpensive solution.

Buy a spool of Ethernet cable and hire a handyman (electrician NOT needed) to run the line from the laundry room, where I suspect the Comcast line enters your house and where they’ve placed their modem-router. Connect the Ethernet to the router, run it up inside the wall, across the attic floor and then down inside the front wall of the dining room. Tell the handyman to install a plate on the wall with the Ethernet/Cat5 female connection, right next to the 110 outlet on that wall.

That will place your connection to the Comcast signal right in the center of your Lantana. Then I installed a “mesh” wifi extension system. The Eero Plus is popular and good, but there are several others available at Best Buy. The Amazon Eero Plus system is on sale now for $209.

The advice you’ve gotten above on “extenders” versus Mesh systems is correct. What you want is a Mesh System to extend your wi-fi signal with no loss of strength.

By relocating your connection to Comcast’s wi-fi line to the center of your Lantana, and then even further extending the signal with the mesh extender, you’ll have a strong signal all the way from the front bedroom to outside on the lanai. We have a pool outside the lanai and I got a great wi-go signal even out to the pool deck.

Best thing I ever did—no more calls to Comcast complaining about a lousy WiFi signal. You can further improve signal strength by purchasing a “premium signal” (up to 500 Mbps) from Comcast.

Enjoy your Lantana.
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