Best wireless USB with solid walls.

josey1964

Hi

Our house is 100 years old, with solid walls. We move over to talk talk later this week and the router is plugged in downstairs. The computers are upstairs at the opposite side of the house.

Can anyone suggest a wireless USB that will be up to the job.

Many thanks.

basill

What about a pair of Homeplugs?

B

Networkguy

If you don't need wireless but need a way to get the connection to the other side of the house, check out "home plug" as a great way to move data around your house using the mains wiring.

Then look on eBay as there are loads of the ex BT home plug kits going dirt cheap (and they work really well)

DCFC79

josey1964 wrote: »

Hi

Our house is 100 years old, with solid walls. We move over to talk talk later this week and the router is plugged in downstairs. The computers are upstairs at the opposite side of the house.

Can anyone suggest a wireless USB that will be up to the job.

Many thanks.

Could you not have the internet connection moved,

josey1964

Thank-you.
I did not know about the wallplugs, may have to give them a go.

espresso

josey1964 wrote: »

Thank-you.
I did not know about the wallplugs, may have to give them a go.

Why not simply extend the telephone line to where the PC is located? It's already come several kilometres, so another few meters won't make any difference.

totalsolutions

Radio signals dont pass through thick walls so neither will limited power wireless USB signals, hard wire with cat5 cable, much less hassle in the end if you can and cheap.

Bob63

Homeplug from Solwise is very good - http://www.solwise.co.uk

Whatever you do, don't go for 14Mbps, it is just too slow.

Solwise do a nice combined homeplug wireless access point which allows you to access wireless on the other side of the house. As a bonus it also has an ethernet port if you want to connect a wired device as well. I have one, it works a treat.

espresso

cheesy.mike wrote: »

Homeplug from Solwise is very good - http://www.solwise.co.uk

Completely unnecessary for this problem. Each Homeplug is rated at approx 5W so an extra 10W and a cable would not consume any power!

:rolleyes:

Networkguy

espresso wrote: »

Completely unnecessary for this problem. Each Homeplug is rated at approx 5W so an extra 10W and a cable would not consume any power!

:rolleyes:

How do you work that out?

Homeplug will get the signal from one end of the house to the other over the mains cables.

You can their either plug a wireless access point into the end or just plug an ethernet cable into the device or run a switch/hub.

In any event, the wattage seems totally irrellevant.

espresso

Networkguy wrote: »

How do you work that out?

Each Homeplug contains a switched mode power supply and this consumes approx 5W of electricity!

Homeplug will get the signal from one end of the house to the other over the mains cables.

So will either a phone cable or Ethernet cable with no extra running cost.

You can their either plug a wireless access point into the end or just plug an ethernet cable into the device or run a switch/hub.

Same as a cable then.

In any event, the wattage seems totally irrellevant.

It's not irrelevant as electricity cost money and in this case it's simply not required. If you wanted to get broadband down to a summer house with a mains supply down at the bottom of the garden yes maybe but not for this problem!

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