wired wifi extender

studdlymurphy

Hi all,
My house has thick walls and the router is placed on one side of the house. I want to run cat 5 cable from it to the other side of the house and connect a wifi extender. The cable is needed for the dlistance as the wireless signal loss is a lot. What device can I connect as the extender? Could I use an old eir come router?
Any suggestions?
Thanks

The high horse brigade

Get yourself an access point like this which can even be ceiling mounted
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ubiquiti-Networks-UAP-AC-LITE-Access-Point/dp/B016K4GQVG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1491760190&sr=8-1&keywords=unifi+lite

studdlymurphy

Will it work wired to my primary router? Or is it a wireless repeater?

The high horse brigade

Yes, an access point is what you need and that is one of the best you can buy at a very decent price

studdlymurphy

I don't doubt that but will it connect permanently to my primary router and then act as an extension of the network? If so I'll have it

dev100

j4vier wrote:

I'm trying to pay for vrt, and I'm in a hurry to do so, but during the inspection I was told that they would get back to me with a price within 10 days. This was last Friday.

Buy yourself a TP link .... Great device. Basically depending on model you can use both wires and wireless. Comes in 2 parts + Basically plugs into your electrical socket in the wall and you connect into the back of your router. It uses your electrical wiring a connector /conductor and you then plug the 2nd part into any socket anywhere else in house and it becomes a wireless emitter or you can connect via Ethernet .

I was sceptical at first but it works a treat. Harvey Norman's and the like sell them

The high horse brigade

If they work. Homeplugs are completely hit or miss and depend on the quality of your electrical circuit to do a job it's not intended for. YMMV

DivingDuck

dev100 wrote: »

Buy yourself a TP link .... Great device. Basically depending on model you can use both wires and wireless. Comes in 2 parts + Basically plugs into your electrical socket in the wall and you connect into the back of your router. It uses your electrical wiring a connector /conductor and you then plug the 2nd part into any socket anywhere else in house and it becomes a wireless emitter or you can connect via Ethernet .

I was sceptical at first but it works a treat. Harvey Norman's and the like sell them

Had this system in place for a year or so and had to ditch it recently. Non-stop drops, kick-offs, slow speeds, etc. It was driving me nuts. Eventually bought some cat-5e cable, an Apple Airport, and a lot of those little nails with plugs to attach the cable to the skirting boards.

I haven't had any issues with connection dropping since, and I am getting 40mbps+ consistently. Given my experience, I would definitely recommend you save yourself the bother and hassle of trying powerline adapters and just get some cabling and a router or access point like the one first linked.

cram1971

I have had this problem in my own house, it's not that big about 2600sqft, but lots of concret, I have tried lots of options high powered ap's, wifi extenders, they all sort of worked but not seemlessly and there were still black spots. About 2 years ago I bought 4 of the unifi AP's and I have not looked back, devices roam seamlessly I have added outdoor units to cover the front and back garden. Brilliant piece of kit. I have since put it in work also easy to setup guest networks also.
https://www.ubnt.com/unifi/unifi-ap/