Sky wireless booster - link for Ireland?

hatrickpatrick

Just wondering does anyone have a link to Sky's Ireland store page for the wireless booster? All I can find is a UK one listed in GBP, which is a pain and will probably take days to arrive.

Am I to understand that the Sky Ireland store does not offer these or am I just missing the link?

We switched from Eircom to Sky last year and I have to say, I'm appalled by how unbelievably sh!te the signal strength throughout the house is. Now I know I live in an old house with granite walls as opposed to the newer hollow-style ones and that's going to be used as an excuse for the sh!te signal strength, but the bottom line is that the Eircom router never had the issues this sky one has with reaching every room in the gaff.

Anyone know where one can get these in Ireland? Should I just phone them and see if I can order one?

AlanS181824

Not available in Ireland sadly, we're not their core market.

Knasher

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

but the bottom line is that the Eircom router never had the issues this sky one has with reaching every room in the gaff.

Then why not disable the wireless on the sky router and the dhcp server on the Eircom one, and then bridge them together using a lan cable and use the Eircom one for wireless? (assuming that you can't use the eircom one for everything)

Honestly that wifi extender doesn't look great. It will extend your range but at the price of 50% of your wireless throughput. A much better option would be to put a wireless access point (or your eircom router) at the opposite end of your house, and then have some sort of link between them, ideally wired, but even over homeplug would be an improvement over that thing.

hatrickpatrick

Sadly I don't think we still have the old router
Also because of the number of stairs and doorways etc in our house a wired solution isn't going to work. Is there another way to wirelessly boost the signal? AFAIK the Netopia routers weren't able to do that.