Wifi distance/drop for a simpleton

mgfvvc

britishboy wrote: »

Am guessing hard wired with Cat 5e cable, to a 2nd router?

I'd suggest future proofing it by installing cat6.

alan_d

britishboy wrote: »

Thanks JJ, they had to get anough people sign up in the village to install the fibre, but at 2 local 'shows' in other villages everynoe was getting bang on what was promised, across the 4 tariffs, 50, 100, 200 and even 1000 Mbps

That sounds similar to https://www.ecomltd.co.uk/broadband.html

System

britishboy wrote: »

Thanks Neil, so even when we have 200Mbps coming into the house, it could still well be 4Mbps in the bedroom, as it is now?

Correct. The speed of your internet currently is not the limiting factor in the bedroom if the speed you get is lower than the connection speed to your ISP.

I'm guessing I will need a faster or more powerful wireless router, but should get one with the new fibre package?

You'll get one but it won't solve the problem.

A far better solution would be powerline home networking. You would have a master unit that plugs into a mains socket near your router and connects to the router by cable. You would have slave units that plug into sockets in various places in the house and talk to the main unit through the house mains. You can get slave units that can provide both wifi and wired connections.

So you'd buy something like this:

https://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/computing-accessories/networking/powerline/tp-link-wpa4220-wifi-powerline-adapter-kit-av600-twin-pack-10153178-pdt.html

And then just get additional units like these if you need further coverage.

https://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/computing-accessories/networking/powerline/tp-link-tl-pa4010-powerline-adapter-kit-av600-twin-pack-10143560-pdt.html?intcmpid=display~RR

mgfvvc

Tarambor wrote: »

A far better solution would be powerline home networking.

Well, maybe. Powerline kit can work very well, but it can also be quite poor. It doesn't get on well with the wiring in my house, so the connection to my living room was hopeless on AV200 powerline kit and erratic, but mostly usable on AV500 kit.


I now use mesh networking, which is more expensive. but brilliant when working. Unfortunately I picked the BT Whole Home kit and BT pushed out a broken firmware update and that's pretty unreliable too

GunJack

Best suggestion is cat5/6 to the summerhouse, and set up your existing router as an access point in there, driven from the cat5/6 - the only extra thing you'll need to buy is the cat5/6 and a suitable tube to run it in

steviebabes

DoaM wrote: »

Or Homeplugs could be another option, assuming the summer house has mains power from the existing domestic distribution board.

If power is supplied via armored cable then Homeplugs just wont work. I found this out when I tried to get internet in my workshop. Ended up using a wifi extender with excellent results.