someone with knowledge...

mickey54

...hope someone can direct me as to what I need. I have a desktop in one room - and a laptop. The signal or the desktop is brilliant, but, when using laptop in another room - the signal drops away.
What I can buy to increase the wi-fi signal in another room. I would also need this to be able to tie in to smart TV.

Afraid we are absolutely useless at technology.

thanks for any help given.:)

PHARR

You can purchase a device which plugs into your normal household power plug in the wall called a 'Wifi repeater' if you google this you can find information on it and compare prices.

It will basically pick up your wifi in you household and extend the range that little bit more so you get a good strength around your home.

Depending on how much you pay and the specification, depends on how much speed difference there is, if you get a very cheap one you may see a slight slower speed on the laptop than if you were to get a good priced one. Not always the case.

You could always move the Modem somewhere central in the household and run a cat 5 cable(buy if not long) from the desktop to the modem.

mickey54

Thanks. Moving the router isn't an option I'm afraid - but I will check out the prices on the booster.

PHARR

Ok, you could also as untidy as it sounds, run cable from modem to the room where laptop is?

Anyway somebody may come up with a better plan. Wish you best of luck

macman

Or a pair of Homeplugs will do the job.

Enterprise_1701C

Just to clarify, is the dektop wi-fi or plugged into the router? And how far away is the other room. If your desktop is wi-fi, does your router have sockets on the back?

victor2

mickey54 wrote: »

Thanks. Moving the router isn't an option I'm afraid - but I will check out the prices on the booster.

Consider again if it really isn't an option. Maybe an extension of the phone line/cable going to the router will be worth the trouble and still give usable WiFi over the house.
Look at what is causing the signal to weaken. You could run inSSIDer on the laptop to get an idea of signal strength in different locations.
Also, maybe it's simply a case of improving the setup in the router. What router is it? Someone may then give hints about optimising it.

closed

Where and how far apart are the 2/3 rooms, does the router have an external aerial, and if so, have you tried adjusting it?

mickey54

Enterprise_1701C wrote: »

Just to clarify, is the dektop wi-fi or plugged into the router? And how far away is the other room. If your desktop is wi-fi, does your router have sockets on the back?

Desktop is plugged into router, and yes it does have sockets. The other room is quite a bit away.

Enterprise_1701C

mickey54 wrote: »

Desktop is plugged into router, and yes it does have sockets. The other room is quite a bit away.

In that case this is nothing to do with the wireless signal, it gets the signal through the cable.

How old is your router? Is it Wireless "G" or Wireless "N". "N" is the later version and gives a stronger signal.

As you have sockets on the back of the back of the router then a wireless homeplug is quite feasible, you take a patch lead from your router down to a unit that plugs into a mains power socket and then plug the other one from the pair into any other power socket in the house (assuming it is on the same fuse board).

If it is a Wireless "G" router, then you would probably solve the problem by replacing it with a Wireless "N" router.