Router or access point or nothing?

[inpras]

Hello Members,

Background:
My house is 3 story, basement, ground, first and a head room, little away from BSNL tower (4km to be precise), and I have recently bought a new 3G connection (unlimited for 6 months for 4.2 K), now that I have 3G connection I wanted to setup a wifi network and hence bought a BigPond 7.2 Home Network Gateway which has a WLAN IEEE802.11b/g AP, it allows me to insert sim and connect to 3G netwrok, I also have to buy a 3G antenna that I have to place on the roof (for getting better signal). This arrangement binds me to place the gateway device in the last floor(head room). This however causes the wifi signal strength issue, my PC at second floor wont catch a strong signal (only 1 bar).

Problem:
1. My PC at second floor is my current 24x7 download PC which is receiving a low signal because of wall interfernce.
2. In future I want to set up a 24x7 download rig + gaming PC at first floor
3. I cant switch to wired broad band (not yet)

I think the solution are:
1)
Buy a router (N)
or
Buy an access point (N)
2)
Buy a higher capacity antenna booster

What would your advice? Budget can be around 10K (too much?)

thanks in advance for all thoughts.....:huh:

 

[Edrill]

Is the distance too great between where the gateway is, and where the download rig is located? If not, the cheapest, albeit not cleanest option would be to run an ethernet cable between the gateway and the rig. Else you could use an N AP connected to the gateway.

 

[reddy8155]

Look at Asus Nxx routers. They can work as router, access point or repeater. Just need to toggle a switch on the bottom.