The router is on the ground floor. The teenager's room is on the first floor. The solution? Not a repeater. A steel kadhai (wok) placed behind the router to reflect the signal upward. It works 60% of the time. That is enough.
Life in an Indian household usually begins before the sun fully claims the sky. The first sound is often the rhythmic "whistle" of a pressure cooker—the universal alarm clock of India.
In a traditional Indian family, the kitchen is not a room; it is a throne.