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[Lewis]

Does anyone have or can recommend a WiFi booster or extender, please?

Have seen a few different types online and on ebay but not sure which to get...

 

Basically there's 8 students living in a 4 storey house and we can't get internet downstairs in the lounge.

We can't move the router as there is only the 1 connected phone socket and it's in the middle of all bedrooms so that works, but the lounge is down 2 levels and at the back of the house so there is no signal down there so we need something to boost or repeat it?

 

Thanks!

[Geoid]

I have one similar to this. It was quite simple to set up.

[majorbloodnock]

Not that Fred's solution is exactly expensive at £27, but it's worth my asking first if you already have another wireless router. If so, and if it's practical, you could simply run a network cable to a different location and connect the two routers together. There are a few technical details necessary to get right in setting it up, but is perfectly practical.

[Princess Leia]

OH is just looking at a similar issue and was recommended one of these, which get good reviews.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Netgear-WN3000RP-Universal-Range-Extender/dp/B0055Y6PUA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1353924148&sr=8-1

[The Dogmother]

You can also get signal extenders that plug into electrical sockets and work through the mains wiring.

[laurmurf]

We tried a plug in solution in my daughter's 4 storey student house only to find out that the separate ring mains didn't allow for this.

We went for a router extender.

[The Dogmother]

That's the problem I had; my floors are each on separate ring mains.

[gongladosh]

Access points (boosters) work fine if you're only after extending wifi, but if you want to attach anything wired, you'll have a problem - think NAS boxes (network attached storage) or printers etc.

 

What I have for that is a powerline network. You can get as many plugs as you like and it's proven very effective and reliable (I've got for 500mbps as ideally you'll want your internal networking to be running faster than your broadband speed so you don't introduce any delays). Mine works so well that I've kept my cable model running downstairs stright into a powerline network socket and moved the wireless router upstairs, let alone any of the bits I'm dangling off it.

[Geoid]

We tried a plug in solution in my daughter's 4 storey student house only to find out that the separate ring mains didn't allow for this.

We went for a router extender.

It should work if they all go through the same fuse box, I had one from the kitchen ring main connected to the upstairs socket ring main and it worked perfectly.

[The Dogmother]

 

Looks like I've been mis-informed then.

[Lewis]

Ahh I didn't think about that, we have 3 different fuse boxes and 3 electric meters so guess that type wouldn't work...

 

Where would we put the type you posted for it to work - next to the router, in the lounge or halfway to the lounge where we still have signal?

[Geoid]

Put it halfway to the lounge where you still have signal.

 

3 meters and 3 fuseboxes?! How does that work?

[Lewis]

Thought so, may have to go in the kitchen or a bedroom as we don't have a plug in that hallway!

 

 

Just add the 3 bills up and divide by 8?