Wi Fi booster

billyolly

I have a Virgin Super Hub 2 wireless router ,can someone recommend a booster so I can access the Internet on my I Pad at the bottom of my garden please.

John_Gray

Run the Super Hub in modem mode, and add a decent broadband wireless router.

And getting a signal at the bottom of your garden isn't guaranteed, since it depends on how many walls the signal has to go through from the router, how long the garden is, how congested is the wireless channel you are using... and so on.

onomatopoeia99

And bear in mind that no matter how much you up the broadcast power of the router, the ipad is still going to be sending the same signal from the bottom of the garden so you might need to hook the router aerial up to something the size of Jodrell bank to receive the signal from it.

GunJack

onomatopoeia99 wrote: »

you might need to hook the router aerial up to something the size of Jodrell bank to receive the signal from it.

:rotfl: that'll need an awful lot of foil to build :rotfl:

Strider590

You can get cheap WiFi repeaters that do a decent job, I actually hacked one to fit two large antenna to it and mounted them on the outside of my garage and I use the other when I go on holiday, so that I can create WiFi hotspots using the connection to the IP phone.

The cheap ones that look like a half moon shape, they work well.

Avoid TP-Link (they're one of the most well known), I thoroughly regret buying one, not only was it expensive, but it took me 3 days to get it working (as opposed to 10 minutes with the cheap ones), it likes to randomly lose it's settings and every now and then it randomly turns back on it's DHCP and totally screws my entire network.

jshm2

Especially if you cannot Powerline.

Netgear WN3000RP get the job done.

BT Dual-Band Wi-Fi Extender 1200 or DEVOLO dLAN 1200+ Starter Kit if you're feeling more flush.

wacko911

Don't forget that WiFi extenders in repeater mode half the speed of your wireless network. A homeplug WiFi extender or wired extender isn't going to have that problem.

Most people have old WiFi routers lying around. Run a cheap bit of cat5 cable to it, manually set it to a static iP address, disable dhcp and optionally set it to the ssid and wpa passphrase as your main router on a different channel to achieve a cheap wireless access point. This is MSE after all.

thescouselander

Agreed - don't bother with a repeater, they're rubbish. Better to use a couple of home plugs with one of them being the type with a built in WiFi access point.

Using an old router as above would also work although obviously it's not as neat. I suppose it all depends on whether you've got somewhere to hide it all away or if the equipment will be on show.

ballyblack

I agree with above, bought a TP wifi repeater, it was rubbish

Enterprise_1701C

Strangely enough we regularly use TP link for our customers, easy to set up when you know what you are doing.

Without knowing the relationship between your modem/router and the bottom of your garden makes this question a little tricky, but if the house is of average size and your equipment is fairly modern, and assuming you are on ISDN, then it may well be worth having an extension socket installed on the wall that faces your garden (inside). You can then plug the modem/router into that, there is a good chance the signal will get a fair way beyond the wall.

That also assumes that you do not wish to use the wifi in any point within the house that loses the signal while you are outside.

Another option is to simply get an access point and run a cat5 through the house to it, but again without knowing the house I cannot say how well this would work.

I think you need to answer a couple of questions such as how far is "the bottom of the garden" and how far inside is the router.

Case in point, we have a 40ft back garden and the hub is in the front of the house, we have no problem picking up a signal at the bottom of the garden, and indeed outside the garage which is about 100 ft from the router.

billyolly

i would say the bottom of the garden is approx 120 feet from the router