Is it worth trying to improve wifi signal or do I need to bite the bullet and wire ethernet

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Noob here hoping for some advice.

Moved house last week into a 1500ish built thatched roof property with a slightly odd layout.



The broadband router connection point is in the kitchen (bottom left of the Kitchen in the above floorplan) and as such, the wifi signal is pretty good in the two right most bedrooms (i.e. above the kitchen!) but is poor / non existant in some of the other rooms.

Typically, it's really poor in the cellar (keeps disconnecting) which is my man cave with my PC etc. which I use to work from home but also to do some online gaming on an evening.

I'm pretty dire at DIY so don't really want to be drilling holes in walls to run ethernet cables from the kitchen to the cellar unless I absolutely have to. Can anybody please recommend some kit that is easy to set up for beginners that will enhance the wifi signal to the whole home? Also, am I kidding myself that wifi will ever be good enough for online gaming (ping / latency etc.) ?

Thanks in advance
 
A mesh wifi setup might fit the bill for you.

Basically a set of units dotted around the house which form a blanket of wifi, but without some of the drawbacks of the simple wifi extenders.
 
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