Advice please - Getting rid of a wifi blackspot

missimaxo

We have a Sky brodband router which is upstairs in our house - my son's bedroom which is also upstairs and actually quite close to the router gets very little wifi signal. We have tried the usual solutions suggested on the interent about repositioning the router etc. but due to other things plugged in we cannot move it too far and this has had no effect on my son's room. We were also supplied by Sky with the latest router as our old one was old - but this never made a difference.

We have run an ethernet cable into his room from the router and hard-wired his x-box however as an up and coming teenager he now wants to use his phone and tablet on wifi in his room and the signal cannot cope.

We were supplied by Sky with their wifi booster, which we successfully connected to the sky box, however the signal was too weak in my son's room to pick up the signal and "boost" it - so this does not work (to be honest it didnt appear to improve the signal anywhere but in my sons room it just had the error light that it couldnt 'see' the router). I have looked at Amazon and the other similar things available (that dont cost the earth) seem to rely on a similar system to the Sky one, so I am reluctant to spend more money on something that wont work. I have seen things that plug in by the router and then in my son's room using the house electric cable as a network cable but these seem to extend the network without the need for a cable which obvisouly dont solve our problem, there are odd ones that do wifi as well but these seem to be very expensive.

Can anyone suggest a solution? I wondered if you could get something that would actually connect to the router by the ethernet cable we already have and in turn then just send wifi within his room? I have looked but dont really know what it would be called or what to look for. The terminology such as "repeaters" get confusing.

Sadly I presume it is the house structure blocking the signal. Any advice gratefully received.

stator

Since you already have a network cable going into that room, what you need is a Wireless Access Point. You plug the cable in the back and it will provide wireless access to your network seperately from the main WiFi.
If you still want to connect the XBOX then get a Wireless Access Point that also has 2 or more Network connections on the back.

Something like this: ( I don't know if this one is any good)
http://www.ebuyer.com/413595-tp-link-tl-wr843nd-300mbps-wireless-access-point-client-router-tl-wr843nd

missimaxo

Brilliant - thank you - I was sure there must be a product I just had no idea what I was looking for!

I'll go and research wireless access points.

esuhl

If you have a spare wireless router, you could also use that as a wireless access point.

Cisco001

Get powerline wifi adapter

http://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-LINK-TL-WPA4220KIT-Powerline-Configuration-Smartphone/dp/B00DHB2T44/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1445548747&sr=8-1&keywords=powerline+wifi+extender

esuhl

Cisco001 wrote: »

Get powerline wifi adapter

http://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-LINK-TL-WPA4220KIT-Powerline-Configuration-Smartphone/dp/B00DHB2T44/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1445548747&sr=8-1&keywords=powerline+wifi+extender

I would have thought a simple access point would be better...? There's an ethernet cable available, so why use the mains?

jbainbridge

+1 for Powerline. The wifi in our son's room isn't enough, we use one of the to take it upstairs - http://solwise.co.uk/net-powerline-plv-200av-pigpew-kit.html

paddyrg

+1 for using the Ethernet cable you already laid, power line is a great compromise for people who don't have Ethernet cables already laid.