VM Broadband

Lord Trollington

Hi All

Recently purchased a house in Dublin with VM broadband . It's a big-ish bungalow with newer extension . The old part of the house has massively thick walls and has one connection point for VM.

Opposite end of the house has a VM connection also but from one end of the house to the other the signal is poor .

Any suggestions as to how to improve this and have strong WiFi throughout the house.

It's a 1gb connection.

I have a new VM router and and one from my old house . Could they both be used with 2 different passwords?

smuggler.ie

Does house have Ethernet wiring through the rooms? If so - use existing infrastructure to extend wired/wireless

If not…
x1 Ethernet cable from router to the attic, switch there and links from it to required parts of the building. Where possible/needed, could even drop Ethernet to rooms for wired connections
Dedicated WiFi solution recommended. (aruba, unifi, other)
AP's could be mounted on the ceiling or even left in the attic - WiFi good enough to penetrate plasterboard as long there is no foil backing
Some/most good AP's are PoE - switch feeding them would need to be PoE capable , this will eliminate need for power source at each AP
PoE switch in the attic also might be useful if intend to have CCTV cameras in the future

Setting up second router possible but would have downsides:

*Ethernet cable still required to join same network
*Even if set with same SSID/password your mobile devices would not "roam" seamlessly - devices would drop one connection to re-connect to stronger signal from other (versus AP's that work as ecosystem and "hand-over" the device without dropping the connection)
*Each router would require management separately vs one place for all AP's/networks, etc

NotShero

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058407649/vm-broadband

You could buy your own mesh system like an ASUS XD4 but before that get in contact with Virgin Media and ask for one of their WiFi Pods, they make their own sort of mesh with the Virgin Media Hub, they are free if you have 1Gb or 2Gb so you’ll get it free. They can give you up to two more if one is not enough.

https://www.virginmedia.ie/wifiguarantee/

Just remember to plug it in between the Virgin Media Hub and where the signal is poor, don’t just plug it in at the other end of the house, just somewhere in between the two.

Now you won’t get the full 1Gb around the house as it’s still only connecting wirelessly to the Hub but it should be much better than it currently is. To get the full 1Gb at the other end of the house you would need to run an Ethernet cable to an access point at the other end of the house. But for most people the mesh idea works well and is enough.

As far as using another Virgin Media Hub as an access point, I don’t think that’s possible with their routers and anyway you would have to run an Ethernet cable between the two, there is no way of doing it wirelessly.

Mesh system is the only way. Nice and neat.