Can any of you help out? My son has the router in his bedroom and we're hitting a dead zone in the lounge. Has or is anyone using a wifi booster? If so are they good? Worth the money? Plus which is a good one to purchase? Thanks any help would be appreciated.
I’d look at mesh. I use these - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0851D6MXY due to the distance between rooms and I wanted to stream the office PC to the TV and needed things a bit faster. They are like have Ethernet docking stations around the place. You plug the router into one and then place the others around where you need them to be. I was a bit skeptical before I bought but they’ve been fantastic and much faster than it was.
Yeah, we use Google Wifi and they're great. Victorian house with solid walls and I can get perfect wi-fi connection from top to bottom and halfway down the garden using 4 of them spread out. Plug the router into the main one and switch off its own wifi mode and the Google Wi-fi points take over as a mesh. The original version ones don't talk at you like the newer Nest Wifi version but if all you want is range extending then they're spot on and cheaper. In fact I noticed on an email from Google yesterday they're reduced in their sale at the moment too: https://store.google.com/gb/config/google_wifi?hl=en-GB
Agree about using mesh. I use TP-Link Decos (on Amazon) and they're great. One consideration is which broadband provider you are using. We have Virgin Media, and their hubs are crap as routers anyway. I plugged a laptop directly into the Hub and did a benchmark test and was only getting about a third of the throughput I pay for (max should have been 219mb). There is quite a fiddly process to switch the Virgin hub from a wireless router into modem only mode, but when the Deco pods are plugged in they do all the routing and have better virus protection. Same laptop working off the mesh network gets the full 219mb, so it's much faster, more secure and greater reach. I have one in my son's bedroom and it's great.
Buy a mesh like mentioned by others I bought the BT discs https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01NBMM...i_i_MHCYC26DYQP98V9HM737?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1 as my VM broadband was barely making it out of the living room. These have changed my life for the better and so easy to set up. I’ve probably overpaid as there are cheaper options on the market, but I don’t care as I now get around 160 Mbps all over the house
I use these for my son's gaming PC and it improved no end. Basically uses the wiring in your house as the cable: https://www.argos.co.uk/product/574...WlDf8xTORgbP4UReqVRoCd7UQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
Yes, Powerline is excellent. Thoroughly recommend. Just make sure you check the speed on the one you're buying so you don't screw yourself accidentally.
How old is your router ? I had dead zones all over the house , was going to invest in mesh and then sky offered me an upgraded router which turns out was a lot more powerful than the old one and solved all my issues , can now get reliable WiFi even at the bottom of the garden I still your current router old / linked to your service provider ?
It's brand new and only installed earlier this week. My problem is my son is a gamer and is not only wired directly to the net but he's playing, streaming and chatting and it seems to be bleeding the signal before it's even left his room. All I really need is something to boost the signal in the lounge so it's a more stable signal.
Online gaming isn’t a particularly download intensive activity, streaming will be heavier in upload speed rather than download. I doubt his activities are really taking up too much of the bandwidth. It’s likely just the distance and walls between the router and the lounge. Any of the suggested options that have been given will probably do the trick to varying effects. Just need to bite the bullet and try one.
An alternative view. Put the router in a more central location in the house then run a network cable from it up into his room to connect to his gaming rig or a WiFi access point just for his use.
Yep I use the Amazon eero, simple to set up and get great net in loft bedroom. Sky doesn't allow modem mode though so I have two networks unfortunately but worth it.
