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Boosting Wireless signal in an old house

Redfox25 · 2013-08-12 19:01:16

Sorry if this is in the wrong thread. Basically, parents in law have an old house with thick walls and 30 year old wiring. They have UPC with a phone beside the router and a wireless phone downstairs. The phone beside the router works perfectly. The wireless one suffers from lack of reception, same story with Wifi…

12-08-2013 7:01pm

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Sorry if this is in the wrong thread.

Basically, parents in law have an old house with thick walls and 30 year old wiring.

They have UPC with a phone beside the router and a wireless phone downstairs.
The phone beside the router works perfectly.

The wireless one suffers from lack of reception, same story with Wifi downstairs. In the room under the router its fine, move a few feet away and the reception is almost nil.

The router is a new one and is working perfectly if your upstairs.

I think the old thick walls are the problem.

Query is, would Homeplugs work or would it be simpler to get 30ft of ethernet cable and tack it down the wall to another router downstairs to boost the signal be a more reliable fix?.

Cheers

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