Really bad WiFi and ridiculous landlord (asking for a friend)

Praetorian

A friend of mine is a tenant in a house he does not want to leave, but he cannot receive a strong enough WiFi signal. He's currently using his phone to get net connectivity to his PC.

The landlord is impossible.

They will not allow my friend the following =

He cannot run a cable to his room

He cannot install his own more powerful router beside the landlords router

He cannot use power line adapters.

He's got an internal PCi express 2.4 ghz card. (not a very high end model).

Has anyone got any products suggestions on wifi receivers that might help my friend? Or any other ideas?

ziedth

Wifi Extender? I got one for my folks from Argos and while not great it does the job.

Something like this;

https://www.did.ie/tp-link-300mbps-universal-wifi-range-extender-white-tl-wa850re-tl-wa850re-prd?gclid=CjwKCAiAvonyBRB7EiwAadauqVWBec-6R337_rjIIZqlODlnE4QjqiRU9NnqClw-Ciec6JoSm0zy0hoCIlgQAvD_BwE#fo_c=1898&fo_k=2c9f351d0e7f8b5affba19ac18c326a7&fo_s=gplaie

Krombopulos Michael

What has he got against powerline adapters. A netgear home plug would work a treat or a WIFI extender plug

OU812

Praetorian wrote: »

A friend of mine is a tenant in a house he does not want to leave, but he cannot receive a strong enough WiFi signal. He's currently using his phone to get net connectivity to his PC.

This is a useable solution. In my opinion, wifi is nothing to do with the landlord & your friend should have organised his own solution.

Praetorian wrote: »

The landlord is impossible.

They will not allow my friend the following =

According to your friend, but has he reasonably discussed things with him & got reasons why?

Praetorian wrote: »

He cannot run a cable to his room

I get this, it could be a trip hazard & may end up either being an insurance risk or causing damage to property

Praetorian wrote: »

He cannot install his own more powerful router beside the landlords router

Why did he ask if he could?

Praetorian wrote: »

He cannot use power line adapters.

Is it usual to ask permission to plug something in?

Praetorian wrote: »

He's got an internal PCi express 2.4 ghz card. (not a very high end model).

nothing to do with the landlord

Praetorian wrote: »

Has anyone got any products suggestions on wifi receivers that might help my friend? Or any other ideas?

There's many possible solutions (using his phone is actually one of them). Just get some decent power line adapters & plug them in. Don't ask permission, don't even mention them.

Praetorian

Thanks for the replies guys.

I think the extender probably won't work as the landlord wont give access to the modem.

Re: powerline. The landlord is unreasonable, and is "worried about it drawing power, and is suspicious about it in general"

My best idea is a better pci express card, possibly with with an external antennae? Or a larger antennae

D3V!L

Is he sharing with the landlord ?

Krombopulos Michael

Praetorian wrote: »

Thanks for the replies guys.

I think the extender probably won't work as the landlord wont give access to the modem.

Re: powerline. The landlord is unreasonable, and is "worried about it drawing power, and is suspicious about it in general"

My best idea is a better pci express card, possibly with with an external antennae? Or a larger antennae

you can get an extender, and all you need is the SSID and Wifi password from the landords router which you have.

Plug this in the bedroom close to the wall the router is located, or if sneaky when Landlord isnt about, in the hall way. Setup to extend the WIFI or you can set it to your own WIFI network and hide the SSID and it'll work.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/NETGEAR-Wi-Fi-Range-Extender-EX2700/dp/B00NIUHAG6

Praetorian

Cool, good suggestion, we could try that.