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F2000 modem range issues - alternative or improvement

  • 03-05-2019 10:57am
    #1
    adocholiday
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,016 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,
    I have eir fibre and am having nothing but issues with the coverage in my house. The house is a bungalow and the router lives in the front room. The walls are thick so I basically lose all wifi coverage in the bedrooms/back of the house. I have a wifi range extender (TP Link RE305 AC1200), but even though it's only about 6m from the router it's separated by a thick block wall and it constantly drops the signal. 
    I've tried various things to make the range extender work better but nothing is working so I have to try something else. I'm thinking either a better router that might emit a more powerful signal, or some other means of improving the coverage in my house. Any suggestions?


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  • #2
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,170 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    (former bungalow dweller)

    Wifi is power limited so your €2 Belkin and your €200 Asus have the same max tx power, you can't buy above a rather weak limit (500mW iirc).


    Use your attic as a cabling conduit. Run Cat5E/CAT6 up from the F2000, along, and down to an access point further down the house. If you've many walls that are quite thick then you might need to install two access points. There are lots of options for APs to buy from a C20i(cheap) up to the likes of Ubiquiti Unifi APs.


    The cheap and cheerful solution that might work in some homes is Powerline adapters but how they perform varies from home to home quite significantly and they'll never match cabled APs.


  • #3
    adocholiday
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,016 ✭✭✭adocholiday


    Thanks!

    I have powerline adapters that came with the eir TV. I didn't need it for the TV but use them for my computer and it works pretty well. I get about 80mbps down with the powerline adapter on a 150mbps connection. 

    I think I'll try running a cable like you said though, I'd say a 15m cable would get me from the router to the hallway for an AP that should give me coverage throughout the back of the house. Thanks for that!


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