22 Foxhole East

trix-a-belle

Chasing the Welsh Dream's gismo is called a powerline adapter, Greenbee's is a mesh network.
I've also got the BT whole home mesh set up but the next one up which allows a bit more speed over the network, you don't have to be with BT for it to work & can often pick them up on faceache marketplace (try BT disc as well as BT whole home wifi as search terms, its the white ones only).
I need to move mine around a little more or get a 3rd so I get better signal in the garage while i'm working but otherwise it covers all of upstairs better and a lot of my garden & is seamless.

I think you can wire the BT discs together too so if it still doesn't like it through the wall & you don't mind a cable tucked down the carpet edge you have that flexibility.

greenbee

@trix-a-belle - in the next house, I'm flood wiring the entire thing and putting in a proper router. Wifi just doesn't live up to the hype! I have 4 wired sockets here (although I realised the other day that one of them doesn't appear to be connected, so need to get hold of the electrician) and I should have done more. If the floors are up/ceilings down and you're having work being done, it would be well worth doing!

f0xh0les

I was just going to knock walls down (not just for the sake of wifi) - it works everywhere except the dining room and kitchen which are beyond the solid wall pantry.   We have  a decent router setup because of the amount of people using the system at once.

I need to stop making excuses and start making phone calls to trades.

Baileys_Babe

We are another who lives in a house made of external walls, ours are made of stone, the narrowest is at least 2 feet and the deepest is at least double that.

We have a tp-link mesh network that works well, in the past we tried a set of powerline adapters which did not work for us.

greenbee

f0xh0les said:

I was just going to knock walls down (not just for the sake of wifi) - it works everywhere except the dining room and kitchen which are beyond the solid wall pantry.   We have  a decent router setup because of the amount of people using the system at once.

I need to stop making excuses and start making phone calls to trades.

It really annoys me that so many of them only seem to do phone and not email. It means you can't contact them when you think of it... they aren't available when you call them, and then you're busy when they call you back.

I've emailed all the ones I can find with email addresses over the weekend... It'll take me ages to get round to contacting the ones I have to phone. 

Looby_Lou

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Lots of places offer 2 for 1 which can save quite a lot of money.

kerri_gt

@f0xh0les i still remember my mum telling me one of her friends sons used to bring his washing home from uni for his mum to do...not just clothes but his washing up too!!

greent

We have G00gle next mesh network, a set of 3 to help our WiFi. Not the best but better than it was now we've moved them around a bit. Interested in the wired sockets @greenbee - would like to know more, as we are having some floors up - when we find a tradesperson who can and is willing to do the job..... 🙄

apple_muncher

I struggled with the uni washing machines because I'd only ever used a twin tub!

VintageHistorian

I remember the tumble driers being terribly expensive but also very essential because our rooms would not get warm enough to dry things off during the winter.

My Mum never let me raid the fridge, instead she would pack up some things for me to take back. And it couldn't be too much because I generally went home via the train so didn't want to lug heavy bags via the Underground My younger sisters definitely got more when they went to their universities as my parents used to drive to them (my eldest little sister has quite bad anxiety so needed the extra support) so extra food could just be packed in the boot of the car.

The best things to take back to university were always the homemade things that I couldn't replicate in halls. I was always sent back with a fresh lemon drizzle cake or a stack of homemade chocolate brownies. I used to return home in November for my birthday so would always be sent back with an advent calendar, and occasionally I would get a note in the accommodation pigeonhole asking me to collect a parcel from the post room and would inevitably find a surprise package of goodies from home if I hadn't been back for a while, or had told my Mum I'd had a bad week.