I've got a question about gateway placement.
In this case, the house is brick. It has a basement, plus a first floor family room built over a concrete slab, which was added to the back of the house. So one of the walls of the family room is an old exterior brick wall. The home's main TV is in the corner of the family room. Uverse was recently installed, and the gateway was located next to the main TV. With the gateway also providing wifi, the wifi signal is pretty weak on the second floor of the house and in the basement, probably because of the one brick wall on the family room and the concrete slab floor.
I ran an ethernet cable from the gateway to a second wireless router running in bridge mode on the upper floor of the original section of the house. The second router is providing wifi to most of the original house and basement. Should I stick with the two router set up? Or would there be any advantage to running additional cabling to allow the gateway to be placed in a central location of the house?
I don't know what AT&T considers acceptable installations, but in my case the internet downloads speeds via wifi were 20 mbps in the room where the gateway is located, and 2 mbps in the basement and second floor. The 2 mbps was too much of a performance drop-off. That's why I repurposed the wireless router that had been used with the previous provider (Time-Warner Roadrunner) as an access point on the second floor.
Anyway, any opinions or pros and cons of repositioning the gateway, or just keeping the gateway in its current location with wifi being supplemented by the second router would be appreciated.
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