Rural Internet - would a Wi-fi Extender help?

Eldi_Dos

JSmithy45AD said:

Ace135 said:

Hi thanks for the replies and flaneurs-lobster has it right. I was advised that using mobile broadband instead might be a better alternative to my existing set up and to put it upstairs in room where laptop is. Someone else suggested an extender but I had my doubts - which you all have helpfully confirmed thanks. 
I don't know exactly what he was measuring outside Rob5342, from memory I think he said the available signal was 100 times as much out on the front road than in the house and this was due to no fibre / only copper wire currently bringing signal into house so he suggested the 4G 5G router as an alternative. 

There's no way I'd have thought that a short run of copper from the street to your house could drop the signal by that much. If that is what he was meaning then that would indicate (to me at least) that there's a bad connection somewhere. It does sound as if you've perhaps misunderstood what he was saying. have you checked with your neighbours at all? It's possible that they've gone through all of this themselves and have got a solution already.

Think I tend to agree with that.If any engineer had found such a condition they would have tried to clear it or swap over onto spare pair in the section of cable coming into property, not just left it.

littleboo

I think its most likely that the engineer was referring to mobile internet speeds. if the Op gets ~1 Mbps and the engineer was suggesting an order of 100 times that, you are well into speeds that are not available over copper. As it was OR, you might assume that he was using EE.

flashg67

How fast do you need? 5g routers are still quite pricey. I use a Huawei 4g router (ebay £30) and an unlimited sim and get a minimum of 10gb, and usually higher, which is enough for HD video streaming for example.
Ideally find some friends on different mobile networks and do a speed test to see which is best. It's vodafone for me and I currently have a talkmobile sim in the router at £16 p/m for unlimited data. Monthly contract so can swap/cancel easily if needed

Cisco001

Have a look at Starlink. £35 a month

Ace135

thanks all. Not sure if I misunderstood or not, he literally said it was 100 times the signal out on the street and suggested the mobile broadband from EE. It is playing up again now and openreach are looking into it again. The speed was 0.4mbps when I last checked it right beside the router. The router is an old technicolor one but as its not broken at the moment talktalk are not saying they will replace it. It's very frustrating, thanks for trying to help though

flaneurs_lobster

The router is an old technicolor one but as its not broken at the moment talktalk are not saying they will replace it. 

Things can get broke, accidental like, ifyouknowwotimean?