MacBook Pro only works near router...sometimes

I am wasting a good portion of my 39th year on this Earth trying to get my MacBook Pro to connect to my wireless. Comcast has come three times, and swears they aren't the problem.
For the last month and a half, my macbook pro only works near the Comcast router. During the prior two years, it worked throughout the house. I have a PC laptop that was working elsewhere in the house, but also stopped getting wi fi recently.
Now the PC works, but I still can't get Wifi on my macbook pro. My Kindle also can't connect to the wifi.
At one point, a technician suggested getting a netgear router, so I did...and that worked for a week, but now I'm back to the same problem.
The laptop gets wifi fine in cafes.
Help!

Hi Leroy
Thanks for the reply but if you read my OP, I've already tried what you suggested.
Thanks again,
Jacobo

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