Which WiFi Booster ?

jaybeetoo

I’ve tried different routers, extenders and power line adapters. I finally bit the bullet and installed a BT Whole Home WiFi and it has been great. No more complaints from the family. You switch off the WiFi on your router and just use this.

https://shop.bt.com/products/bt-whole-home-wi-fi-088269-CDXH.html

JP1978

CardinalWolsey wrote: »

If you do go down the powerline+wifi extender route (which can be a good solution), don't allow the unit to "clone" or "copy" your existing WiFi details (e.g. SSI, password etc). Whilst this can seem a good idea - only having one wifi "network" in the house - in reality what happens is that devices connect to one router (or wifi transmitter, so to speak), and then stay connected to it even if there is another network with the same name with a stronger signal available. You have to turn your device's wifi off and back on again to force a reconnect to the stronger signal router.

This is because the cheap home kit we use for this purpose doesn't have the inbuilt management capabilities to hand off between wifi routers. A mesh network does have this capability, and "pro" routers (such as offices and public spaces use) also do.

So name each router's wifi differently, e.g. "UPSTAIRS" and "DOWNSTAIRS", as it makes it more obvious and a reminder that you need to switch between networks, and guarantees which router you are connecting to (or spend more money and invest in e.g. a mesh network, such as https://store.google.com/product/google_wifi )

I have a TP-Link Router (VR900) and two TP-Link powerline extenders (Wi-Fi & Ethernet) - the SSID is the same on all of them and dont have issues with handover to the stronger signal.