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Wi Fi booster

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  • OGR
    OGR Posts: 157 Forumite
    How far from the backdoor leading to your garden is the router, are there any walls in the way?

    If it is the room directly backing onto the garden then other than buying a stronger WiFi router you aren't going to have many options.

    I will be honest, most of the ISPs routers are pretty dreadful when it comes to WiFi and if you are in a congested area you are normally out of luck. I myself am now onto the Sky Q hub and don't even find that very good, was hoping for so much more over the Sky Hub SR102. But I refuse to be forced to run another router just to give me better WiFi so I just put up with having bad WiFi in most of my property.
  • Strider590
    Strider590 Posts: 11,874 Forumite
    Strangely enough we regularly use TP link for our customers, easy to set up when you know what you are doing..

    There's not a lot you can do when you need to change 3 settings on 3 different pages (all of which need to be changed at the same time) and the repeater wants to reboot when when changing each one, the repeater then becomes inaccessible and several hours of sticking a pin into the reset button will invariably begin.

    The single worst peace of IT hardware I have ever purchased, and believe me i've purchased some real junk over the years.
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  • Gloomendoom
    Gloomendoom Posts: 16,551 Forumite
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    I have a long range setup that uses, oddly enough, all TP-Link kit:

    A 1 metre parabolic dish feeding a high power wireless access point running in WISP client mode connected to a mini wireless router.

    It works.
  • esuhl
    esuhl Posts: 9,409 Forumite
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    You can get wireless access points that mount on the outside of a building. Connect that to your main router via cable.
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