Expanding my wireless signal.

[K3Fallout]

I have a situation. I have a D-link DIR-655. Which that along side with my modem is located downstairs. The upstairs living room has a crappy signal where loading videos becomes painfully slow. Awhile ago, I just tried to relocate my router upstairs and just drill a hole for a CAT cable to slip through to the modem downstairs from my room(as my room is directly above the router)...3 useless holes later, for whatever reason it is impossible to drill through. What are my other solutions?

 

[ghost6303]

powerline, directional antennas, relocate the modem/coax cable upstairs, or figure out how to run the ethernet cable thru the wall. when going from one floor to another, there is a header 2x4 (atleast) that caps the verticle studs in the wall that you have to drill thru. its not as easy as 2 holes in the wall and pass the cable thru the floor. its hard to do without opening up the section of drywall and being able to see what you are doing, or without knowing how the building was put together.