tip to wallmount a router that doesn't have wallmount socket

londonTiger

Hi. have a 3 floor house (ground, 1st, 2nd) and it's not possible to get internet to the 3rd floor of the house if I have the router in the ground.

I current setup is that I have a router wall mounted in the 1st floor landing, placing the router in the rooms weakens the signal and we found the landing to be the best place to put the router.

Now the new stuff are all funky and are designed with astethics in mind. Saw a TP-link router with a touchscreen display on it. Why the heck would you need a touchscreen display on a router?? I digress.

A cheap and affordable router is the tp-link archer c2, for £44. It supports wireless ac and is gigabit so good futreproofing there for little money.

Only trouble is it doesn't have any holes for wall mounting. Very few of these new generation of "Aesthetically pleasing routers" have any wall mounting option. Apart from putting garden wire and making a hanging mechanism (picture frame style), are there alternative means of hanging the router? I was hoping there would be a glue on hook that I could bond on the bottom of the router which will attach onto the screw head.

bod1467

Velcro pads?

ballyblack

Heavy duty Double Sided Tape

Fightsback

Six inch nails and a very large hammer.

Disclaimer: this may damage your router beyond repair.

Seriously, you could always modify the casing as there appears to be enough room to create your own mountings:

http://content.hwigroup.net/images/products_xl/213865/6/tp-link-archer-c2.jpg

windup

shelf, table, windowsill, radiator, floor

londonTiger

Fightsback wrote: »

Six inch nails and a very large hammer.

Disclaimer: this may damage your router beyond repair.

Seriously, you could always modify the casing as there appears to be enough room to create your own mountings:

http://content.hwigroup.net/images/products_xl/213865/6/tp-link-archer-c2.jpg

there's lots of space on the top, but i would prefer to mount it from the bottom (ugly side)

enfield_freddy

has it got screws to hold the bottom on?

londonTiger

enfield_freddy wrote: »

has it got screws to hold the bottom on?

no, hence why posting. the bottom has no means to cling onto screw heads in wall.

enfield_freddy

I think you mis understand me , how does the "box" come apart


ok looking at the picture above , is the black plastic shown , the bottom of the unit?

londonTiger

enfield_freddy wrote: »

I think you mis understand me , how does the "box" come apart


ok looking at the picture above , is the black plastic shown , the bottom of the unit?

oh yeah, the black plastic is the bottom, the part that's removed is the fancy looking top cover. I think they'y snap in place also, screwless design.

bingo_bango

Might it not be easier to just hang a cloth bag on the wall (the sort of thing you buy as a swimbag in a poundshop?) and put the router inside it?

Not as aesthetically pleasing granted, but won't block the signal and requires no Heath Robinson type escapades with the case.