Advice please-re Wifi coverage at home

Wizard_of_Oz_fan

Having seen a previous post this morning this on this forum it gave me idea's but also raised questions, therefore if anyone has any knowledge/advice they could share it would be most welcome..

We have a long cottage with 3ft thick walls and I want to extend wireless coverage to an upstairs room furthest away from the router which currently cannot recieve any signal (wife wants wifi for her ipod!). We have a BT wireless router which I suspect gives about 55ft wireless area coverage. I need about 70ft to 80ft.

Would I be better off with a wireless repeater placed at the limit of my existing wifi or consider something like a Powerline Network Adaptor. Though if I choose the powerline adaptor would I also need to purchase some sort of wifi transmitter to connect to the adaptor?

thankyou

amcluesent

Repeaters also half the data-rate, as they have to alternative listening and sending, so that may not be so good.

>would I also need to purchase some sort of wifi transmitter to connect to the adaptor<

Yep, you'd need to connect a wi-fi access point to the powerline unit with an ethernet patch cable.

Wizard_of_Oz_fan

Just as I thought. Thanks for your help.

TEDDYRUKSPIN

Try these:

http://www.broadbandbuyer.co.uk/Shop/ShopSearch.asp?CategoryID=259

or get a much better modem and reposition it to another room.

or get a better antennae:

http://www.broadbandbuyer.co.uk/Shop/ShopSearch.asp?CategoryID=32

Fifer

I use this kit. Plug the wireless extender into a convenient mains socket in the area where the existing coverage is to be extended to. Plug the other powerline adaptor into a free mains socket near your existing wireless router and connect it to the router with an ethernet cable, set up your network details and Bob's your uncle.

Wizard_of_Oz_fan

Teddyrukspin/Fifer,

Great advice and links. Thanks very much.

John_Gray

I reckon you'd get good results from HomePlugs. Choose 85 Mbps or 200 Mbps, or, if rich, choose the very recent Gigabit variants. (But divide the figures by about 20-30 to get actual throughput in MegaBytes/second...)

This link tells you about how they can be set up. Note that other fine retailers are available!

Wizard_of_Oz_fan

Thankyou for replies