Broadband in every room

ElephantBoy57

My daughter moved back home and brought her £70+ month BT broadband with her. It is faster than the £20 month that I was paying. So they came and installed new wiring.

I used a laptop with WiFi downstair before, but the new wiring and modem is now in their bedroom. I now find that the WiFi downstairs comes and goes, it seems fast enough, but sometimes it just goes off. I bought a new adaptor for my laptop, just in case that was at fault. Still having dropouts.

I still have a phone line downstairs, can I have two routers?

Owain_Moneysaver

You cannot have two routers on the same phone line. 
If you have two phone lines, and want to pay two bills, you can have two routers. 
You'd probably be better to wire a wifi access point downstairs to the new modem upstairs, with an Ethernet cable. 

ElephantBoy57

When I had ordinary broadband, it was downstairs, then BT installed an aditional faster line in the bedroom. I still have the line downstairs, but no router.

flashg67

ElephantBoy57 said:

When I had ordinary broadband, it was downstairs, then BT installed an aditional faster line in the bedroom. I still have the line downstairs, but no router.

If this  this 'old' line still active and  being paid for then you can add another router but seems an expensive way if going about it - a wifi 'nest' system or a set or wifi powerline extenders would be cheaper 

Mister_G

I think that you mean a wifi 'Mesh' system.  They are very good, but quite expensive.  The powerline adaptors would probably be the best solution.  I've been using the TP-link TL-WPA4220KIT for sometime now.  It has the advantage that you can add further wifi adaptors as necessary.  Of course other manufacturers such as Dlink and Netgear make similar devices.

JJ_Egan

What is this £70 +  BB

Fibre to the premises with a big white box feeding a router ??

ElephantBoy57

Mister_G said:

I think that you mean a wifi 'Mesh' system.  They are very good, but quite expensive.  The powerline adaptors would probably be the best solution.  I've been using the TP-link TL-WPA4220KIT for sometime now.  It has the advantage that you can add further wifi adaptors as necessary.  Of course other manufacturers such as Dlink and Netgear make similar devices.

We did try a long ethernet wire with a small wifi hub at the end, but it is still dropping out. I did try a new wifi adaptor in my PC, but when it drops out it does help to troubleshoot and then it resets the adaptor and it works for a while.

I have bought a TP link, but don't know where to plug it in yet.

The BT set-up now has only one spare connector on the hub, that states broadband on it, but it is the wrong type of connector for the TP link wire.

ElephantBoy57

JJ_Egan said:

What is this £70 +  BB

Fibre to the premises with a big white box feeding a router ??

It's making it difficult, because I am not the bill payer, so I cannot just ring BT. Maybe I should try that.

It's a black box, I will go and study it now.

I managed to get the TP link to work. Its speeds are around 40 mbs download and 30 mbs upload, if I recall correctly the download is similar to what it was before, but the upload is much faster.

Croft12

ElephantBoy57 said:

My daughter moved back home and brought her £70+ month BT broadband with her. It is faster than the £20 month that I was paying. So they came and installed new wiring.

I used a laptop with WiFi downstair before, but the new wiring and modem is now in their bedroom. I now find that the WiFi downstairs comes and goes, it seems fast enough, but sometimes it just goes off. I bought a new adaptor for my laptop, just in case that was at fault. Still having dropouts.

I still have a phone line downstairs, can I have two routers?

Why not get your daughter to speak to BT. @70£ she might have free wifi mesh in her package? Otherwise I'd be trying powerline if wifi is an issue.

Have you tried changing your wifi channels. Its just poss you have intermittent interference from a neighbour perhaps..

Rewring the house to put the modem in the bedroom seems an odd thing to do but you are where you are I suppose.