Poor Internet Reception In Bedroom

itsakidsworld

Hi everyone,

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to solve this problem please? Our home internet comes in down stairs and we have wifi so the kids have access in their bedrooms. However the back bedroom-furthest point from receiver-has a very poor connection which keeps going off.

We have changed the router, we have bought a plug in device which was supposed to be good and wasn't and now we have bought a second receiver to act as a "piggy back" to pick up a signal which sits on the landing. This has made things better but it's still poor.

The walls are concrete if this helps? We are not good technically so would welcome any suggestions / ideas? We will look to change provider if this helps as well as buying some new equipment.

Thanks in advance for any ideas.

Regards

penrhyn

Use homeplugs.

macman

Seconded. If you've tried a wireless bridge/extender and a better router already, then Homeplugs are the only solution.

eddi

macman wrote: »

Seconded. If you've tried a wireless bridge/extender and a better router already, then Homeplugs are the only solution.

Agreed, homeplugs definitely a good idea. Reception upstairs in our house was impossible so we now have the homeplug things and a bridge router wired from the upstairs homeplug. No idea how other half set up additional router ... but it's the only thing that solved the problem and it works really well. Signal all round upstairs is excellent now Wherever you are in the house then phone/laptop etc just picks up the strongest signal from one or other of the routers.

bod1467

itsakidsworld wrote: »

we have bought a plug in device which was supposed to be good and wasn't

I may be wrong but that suggests they may already have tried homeplugs? If not then homeplugs is the way to go. You can even get homeplugs that act as a wifi access point.

itsakidsworld

Thanks for the help and advice everyone. Yes we did buy something which plugs into the socket and it was not very good and we got told something about the wiring circuits on each floor being separate. However we will have another look at this as it sounds like our only option without having wires everywhere.

bod1467

How long ago did you try them? And what brand?

Different wiring circuits certainly used to be an issue, be more-recent versions are supposedly much better.

eddi

itsakidsworld wrote: »

Thanks for the help and advice everyone. Yes we did buy something which plugs into the socket and it was not very good and we got told something about the wiring circuits on each floor being separate. However we will have another look at this as it sounds like our only option without having wires everywhere.

Was it two plugs? ..... one for a socket by the original wireless router with an ethernet (?) cable between router and homeplug, then another homeplug in socket upstairs with ethernet cable from homeplug to second wireless router?

Thats how ours is set up.

I think ours are TP Link brand.

macman

Homeplugs should work perfectly well across separate ring mains. The majority of installs I have done or suggested are downstairs to upstairs, and this means 2 separate ring mains in most houses. They simply have to be on the same CU.
One issue with Homeplugs is that they work very much better if connected direct to wall sockets and not on trailing extensions, where the surge suppressors can slow them down a lot.
OP, before you waste any more money, try setting your Homeplugs up on 2 adjacent ring main sockets (i.e. on the same ring main). If they don't work that way then they are faulty. If they do, you have a wiring issue.
Are you using a matched pair, i.e. the same type at each end, as they're not always backward compatible? Make and model?

itsakidsworld

Bodi147: We tried the plugs quite a while back to be honest and now have a second device on the landing which i think acts as a piggy back to give the back bedroom some reception.

Macman: That is a great idea and i will buy two first and see how they go. Can you suggest which to buy as we are totally in the dark with this issue and any help would be most welcome. We don't have any at the moment as if i remember correct, when they did not work the first time, the shop very kindly refunded our money and advised us to buy the "piggy back" receiver we now use.

itsakidsworld

Hi eddi, yes that was how it was and didnt work.