WIFI Booster help

[TheHighlander]

I have just finished building the Mrs garden office.

It's a thing of beauty..........anyway we are struggling with wifi.

The router is in our living room and about 30 feet maybe a bit more away so I decided to buy a WIFI booster from argos - TP LINK AC1200.

I have plugged it into my garage which is below my living room but closer to the office, it has helped a little but it's still poor.

Any other ideas? I cannot move the router in the house due to it's location?

I did think about sacking off my current provider and getting starlink as I can mount that in the garden inbetween the house and office?

Thanks in advance.

[skyebear]

Is the garden office on the same electric distribution board as the rest of the house?

If so TP Link Powerline adapters installed next to router and in office should be a fairly cheap solution.

Other solutions could be a small switch and running ethernet cables to your office, or mesh WiFi.

Starlink isn't going to fix the problem you're having as you have a WiFi/local connection problem rather than one with your ISP.

[TheHighlander]

skyebear said:

Is the garden office on the same electric distribution board as the rest of the house?

If so TP Link Powerline adapters installed next to router and in office should be a fairly cheap solution.

Other solutions could be a small switch and running ethernet cables to your office, or mesh WiFi.

Starlink isn't going to fix the problem you're having as you have a WiFi/local connection problem rather than one with your ISP.

Hi

Yes it is on the same electrical board as the house.

[RizzoTheRat]

If you can run a cable that's always going to be better, your existing router presumably has a multiple ethernet ports and you can plug another access point in on the other end, if your existing booster has an ethernet port it can do this role.

As above powerline is an option, I've never managed particular good speeds over it but it will give a stable connection.

If you're using a wifi booster (I assume you mean one that plugs in to a wall socket and has a couple of antenna on) it's dependent on how good the wifi signal it receives from the router is. Stick an app like WiFiman or WifiAnalyser on your phone and get a idea of how strong the signal is in places you could put the booster. If it's directly under your router it only has a few inches of floor to go through, bit it's also offset to the side then signal could be passing through many times that thickness as it's an angle to the floor.

[zalrak]

I have recently installed this mesh system:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-Link-Dual-Band-Coverag...

Worked really well for me. Router is in the living room and I was struggling with good reception in the rear garden. This has solved the problem and seems to have increased speed across everything in the house.

Edited to correct link error.

[119]

We had one of these and it worked great.

https://amzn.eu/d/infsPEO

You will need a j pole to mount it.

Current house is wired in so be need for something as elaborate.

If you are mildly tech, you can assign it the same WiFi network and password and your devices should roam easily between them.

[IanA2]

said:

Yup Deco kit is excellent.

Recently installed:

TP-Link Deco X50-4G 4G+ Router WiFi 6 AX3000Mbps WiFi Router

and,


TP-Link Deco X50-PoE AX3000Mbps Whole Home Mesh Booster WiFi 6 with PoE. x2

The router is upstairs in the middle of the house and the boosters at each end of the house on the ground floor about twenty five metres apart. Works really well. No dead spots.

[sgrimshaw]

TheHighlander said:

Hi

Yes it is on the same electrical board as the house.

This set will do the job admirably:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08LW5VPPV?psc=1&r...

[IanA2]

sgrimshaw said:

TheHighlander said:

Hi

Yes it is on the same electrical board as the house.

This set will do the job admirably:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08LW5VPPV?psc=1&r...

TBH that's that the system I used to use (earlier iteration) and it didn't really work too well....

[zalrak]

Same here. Seemed to be quite poor performance on my setup.

[PushedDover]

As above, several Mesh units 'paint the house in Wifi" work for us.
Ping them about the property / place to suit - also great for when you use the wifi for wifi calling / WA / facetime and wander around - hands you from one to another like an old fashion cell network seemlessly.

Would totally go down that route

[gangzoom]

PushedDover said:

As above, several Mesh units 'paint the house in Wifi" work for us.
Ping them about the property / place to suit - also great for when you use the wifi for wifi calling / WA / facetime and wander around - hands you from one to another like an old fashion cell network seemlessly.

Would totally go down that route

I've messed around with Powelines before, never found them to be that great. Mesh WiFi was a game changer for me, recently upgraded to 5 WiFi6 pre-owned nodes for £150. Now we've got rock solid WiFi from driveway to the shed a good 30 meters down the garden. Each node is also handling fairly light traffic so no issues with bandwidth.

[TheHighlander]

Morning

Thanks for all the info - We will go with the one stated above with the plug sockets, will collect it today.

That will keep the wife happy

[sgrimshaw]

TheHighlander said:

Morning

Thanks for all the info - We will go with the one stated above with the plug sockets, will collect it today.

That will keep the wife happy

Get them from Amazon, returns are so much easier than anywhere else .... should you need to.

This is my powerline network.




Device_f268 is the one connected to the EE router.

The Bar is around 40m from the main consumer unit via it's own 40amp supply, and is the other side of a second consumer unit. It's been very stable for around 5 years now. Given there's a LOT of fridges and freezers on my power grid (which are often thought to cause problems with Powerline devices) the speed is more than acceptable for my needs.

Earlier devices were not a patch on the later stuff .... these are AV1200's the one's in the kit I linked to are the newer AV1300 models.

[RizzoTheRat]

That's impressive, I was struggling to get more than about 40Mbps with the older AV1000.

[sgrimshaw]

RizzoTheRat said:

That's impressive, I was struggling to get more than about 40Mbps with the older AV1000.

The later one's are so much better than the early one's.