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Title: Wi Fi Post by: horlock07 on Sunday, January 14, 2018, 21:23:05 My monthly question regarding such matters...
I could do with stretching the reach of our bt Wi-Fi by about 15 metres for a short period, I have built an office in the garden and it will be getting a phone line in due course but till then could do with getting the household available out there, is there an easy and cheap way of doing this? Title: Re: Wi Fi Post by: BambooToTheFuture on Sunday, January 14, 2018, 22:11:30 Can you not buy a usb dongle transmitter to extend or failing that use an old router (if you have one) and use as an APN. Should give enough coverage?
Title: Re: Wi Fi Post by: Sippo on Sunday, January 14, 2018, 22:12:41 Whatever you do, do not buy the plug in extenders. They are crap. Just get yourself a better AP/Router.
Title: Wi Fi Post by: Batch on Sunday, January 14, 2018, 22:55:32 talking of which, any recommendations for a modem/router that will work with BT fiber. the home hub is a bag of shit.
Title: Re: Wi Fi Post by: Bob's Orange on Monday, January 15, 2018, 08:17:27 Whatever you do, do not buy the plug in extenders. They are crap. Just get yourself a better AP/Router. Living in an old place we can’t get a WiFi signal in the back of the flat. So bought an extender over the weekend. Seems to do the trick so far. Have you had issues with them before? Title: Re: Wi Fi Post by: Bogus Dave on Monday, January 15, 2018, 10:42:37 talking of which, any recommendations for a modem/router that will work with BT fiber. the home hub is a bag of shit. Don’t know if it’s of any use, but out bt router was a few generations old and was giving us problems with dropping out quite frequently. we upgraded to their latest one (for an extra £2.50 a month) and I’ve noticed a marked improvement. I initially thought they were just trying to upsell / mug me off, but a quick google suggests their latest router is genuinely good Title: Re: Wi Fi Post by: Batch on Monday, January 15, 2018, 10:59:55 thanks Dave. I think I'm out of contact in May, so will try to tough it out until then. then use it as part of a negotiating tactic.
the issue I have is the 2.4ghz WiFi seems to drop. actually drop is wrong, it shuts off and you need to restart to get it back. got a replacement hub free, doing same as old one so may be an incompatibility with a device and the hh5. who knows. Title: Re: Wi Fi Post by: jayohaitchenn on Monday, January 15, 2018, 11:05:15 Power line adaptor?
Title: Re: Wi Fi Post by: horlock07 on Tuesday, January 23, 2018, 17:56:59 Right, instead we have lain an Ethernet cable plugged into the back of the router running up the underground duct and into the office. However in the office I want to plug 2-3 things in, laptop, printer, phone do I need something like this?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/NETGEAR-GS108UK-Gigabit-Ethernet-Unmanaged/dp/B0000E5SES/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?ie=UTF8&qid=1516730172&sr=8-1-spons&keywords=ethernet+switch+4+port&psc=1 Title: Re: Wi Fi Post by: Sippo on Tuesday, January 23, 2018, 18:06:17 Yep
Title: Re: Wi Fi Post by: jayohaitchenn on Tuesday, January 23, 2018, 19:02:14 Any unmanaged ethernet switch will do, Netgear is a good brand although you can almost certainly get a cheaper one that will do the same thing.
I've got a PoE 8 port Netgear myself. |