That's what I'm now doing. I duct taped a couple of ethernet cables to the back of the couch and you just stick your hand down and grab one if you need it. I terminated the cables slightly earlier and used an inline coupler so you can replace the last 1m when the plastic clip inevitably breaks off after a couple of months without having to rerun 25m of cable.
I mostly use a desktop so this is primarily for the wife and kids.
This is crazy. Duct taping cables to the couch? Too funny.
What about tablets/iPads for wife and kids?
I don't know why you were getting so many dropouts but it's not because "wifi is bad". I live in a house with lots of noise from neighbours wifi, but no problems here. Wifi will be solid for months at a time.
I must have a good wifi router (Billion 7800NL). Not all routers are created equal, I've gone through a couple of duds before the Billion. Some deal with interference better than others. Let the router choose the channel automatically too, very important.
My house is old, quite large, thick walls and so on. But everyone uses wi-fi here from different rooms without any issues. A lot of simultaneous connections going on too.
