i Actually Got A Shiny not too long After i posted That ! What A coincidence . Mhm . im part of Those nice people out There . id Really Hate to accidently Trade A Shiny , even though i have Given A few Away . <| sep |> WiFi repeaters or boosters rarely work . Even when they do , they cut your max throughput in half by their very nature . Either move the router , move where your pc is , or get a better router . Or use Ethernet and skip wifi altogether , consider power line or moca options , etc . You can ' t really just make wifi work better than wifi works without changing things . Edit actually there is one easy way to make wifi better , which is to use better antennas . If you can change the antennas on your router or wifi adapter to upgraded versions , might fix things . Some things can take different antennas , some things can ' t .