Why do I receive poor Wi-Fi signal at my house?

I work out back in my shop not even 100ft away from my house and I can't hold my Wi-Fi connection on my tablet or my iPhone. When I do it's only one bar, very slow, and sometimes it won't find my Wi-Fi signal at all. This has become a major problem for me because I work from home and I need my devices to function properly. My phone constantly turns over to use my LTE or 3G network and it's racked up 60+ in overage data charges for at least 6 months now. We just moved here if that makes any difference. Anyway I've called my cable company and they reset the connection and it did nothing, I switched cable company's and still the problem persists. Why this baffles me is because when I search available networks on my phone, my neighbors network has full bars that I could connect to but seeing that I don't have their password to join their connection That doesn't help. But it makes me wonder why I can recive full signal from their wifif and not mine when they are further then me then I'm from my Wi-Fi box so it makes no sense. If I'm inside my house I get full bars. Any advice would be helpful

The sensible range of home Wi-Fi is 200 feet in good conditions with no obstructions. Anything more than that is pure luck. You need to run a able to the other location and then set up a wireless access point there.

Well even 100 Ft is a lot. My house has Wi-Fi but it won't show up until I'm 50 feet away from the house.

You can use a range extender to increase the range of your Wi-Fi signal or change the settings of your router to transmit wireless signals on a different channel.

100 feet is asking a lot for Wi-Fi unless your router and your computer/phone are all outside.

Your ISP will probably have no control over your Wi-Fi connection. They are responsible for the supply of an Internet connection as far as your router, and not the connections between your router and your computer/phone etc.

There are a couple of possibilities:

1) Ethernet can run up to 100 metres (over 300 feet) with the proper cable. You could install a wireless access point in your shop and run an Ethernet cable back to your router in the house.

2) If the shop is supplied from the same electricity meter as the house, then you could investigate Powerline networking such as:

http://uk.tp-link.com/products/details/?categoryid=2244&model=TL-WPA281KIT+V3

The smaller unit would sit in the house and connect to power and your router. The larger unit would be in your shop providing both Ethernet and Wi-Fi. There are various makes and models available.

Finally, your neighbour's router might be better sited with less obstructions in the signal path to you, hence its stronger signal. Be aware, however, that using a network without the owner's permission is theft and can lead to prosecution.

Only easy option to try is to place the router by a window facing your shop.

Piece of Piroshki! Run an Ethernet cable from the router to an Access Point, to an external antenna, possibly directional. At the telephone company garage I ran an external omni antenna and my laptop connected the Internet at 700 feet!