Wifi at home

[Shadow_Walker]

Just wondering if anyone can offer me some advice.

 

I am with plusnet and have the unlimited fibre 76mb connection. The router that is supplied has terrible wifi coverage around the house. The house i live at has very thick walls and wifi coverage can be poor at times especially upstairs. The router is not in the best position either as it is in the downstairs office and not really in the middle of the house.

 

Can anyone recommend me a good router which would help improve the wireless in the house or can anyone give me any tips on how to improve the signal around the house.

[featured_spectre]

I took to hardwiring my house, but thats a big step. Best bet is wifi repeater, you can pick them up for around £20 from PC World, dart them around your house and you should be ok. My mum has 4 running in her house, and she is in a similar situation to you, seems to work without issue.

[Shadow_Walker]

I can get an ethernet cable from the router up to the attic and then down into any of the rooms upstairs if that makes a difference on what i can do.

[elsiegee40]

I bought devolo homeplug like this Amazon | Devolo dLAN 500 Wi-Fi Starter Kit

 

the wifi unit is up on the landing and the problem solved.

Edited December 8, 2014 by elsiegee40

[fairm010]

I bought devolo homeplug like this Amazon | Devolo dLAN 500 Wi-Fi Starter Kit

 

the wifi unit is up on the landing and the problem solved.

 

I did similar in my parents house only using the TP-LINK Homeplug kit. Configured the Adapter upstairs to use the same SSID as the HomeHub and the same WPA key, works great and cost ~£40

[pcstru]

Homeplugs can be a good solution - I use one to extend in the house but a cheapo TP-Link wired router flashed with DD-WRT in the, err, 'cave'. Edited December 8, 2014 by pcstru

[Edu-IT]

There's some good combined vDSL kit out there. Draytek Vigor seems to be rated highly.

[avenn]

I`ve used netgear home plugs for about 5 years - never failed. However I only have light traffic requirements at home.

 

I put a netgear with wifi at a friend’s recently and it works well. Again light traffic.

 

Your wiring will need to be up scratch for ether over power. If you’re in an apartment building or for some reason share the same electric circuit with another premises then ensure its adequately secured. If not possible free internet via neighbors home plugs.

 

If very high traffic needs put in a cable.

 

So perhaps define your needs: delay / data rates etc then pick the one best suited.

 

Regards

 

Aidan

[Shadow_Walker]

I have had a look at the homeplug options but have heard negative things about them in the past.

 

Had a look at getting an airport extreme as a new router what do you guys think?

[IrritableTech]

If you can get a cable up to your attic and shove a decent AP on it connected directly to your router, I'd do that.

 

I use home plugs for one bit of networking in my house, they add latency. With a decent fibre connection like yours you're going to lose out on some bandwidth if you push yours heavily. Wireless repeaters add even more latency.

 

I'd like to try and get a cable up to my attic to do the same, but a three story house, and nervousness up ladders has prevented me from going that far, so far!

[Norphy]

Had a look at getting an airport extreme as a new router what do you guys think?

 

It's a very simple router but I will say that the various Apple routers that I've had in the past are by far the best that I've ever had. Fastest and most reliable. They just work which is more than I can say for the ones I've had bundled with my previous internet services.

 

The only thing about it is that it doesn't have any modem hardware in it, it's a pure gateway device. You'll either have to use a VDSL modem or if you got an integrated device from your ISP, you'll have to put it into passthrough mode.