Wifi booster

[toots82]

Originally Posted by NewtoOrlando

We bought one last week, after the Virgin man came out to fix the TiVO box in our room, we're on 3 floors, and have gadgets galore and our WIFI has always struggled. It's been brilliant so far... not dropping out at all and the teens havent complained about 'lagging' once! Well worth the money, we have one in the living room, one in my sons room, and one in our room in the loft.

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We only paid £149 for it. It's out of stock but am sure there are similar about.

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Ohhhh thank you. Those look good. I'll have a look around amazon

[gl20]

Originally Posted by toots82

Hiya

I'm not too sure what mesh or a powerline is to be honest?

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Hi there. A powerline set up is where the signal will be sent through your electric mains and broadcast into your daughters room. So you’ll have one small unit you plug into an electric socket that is near your router with a cable (in the kit) to link to the router. Then the other unit with antennas is plugged into a socket at the other end. This is then it’s own wireless network. There will be a small drop in bandwith in this room bit. It much.

Mesh is like the boosters described above but you don’t get any drop and it means you have one single network. But it costs more and probably overkill for your problem.

I can go and find the name of my powerline device if helpful.

[toots82]

Originally Posted by gl20

Hi there. A powerline set up is where the signal will be sent through your electric mains and broadcast into your daughters room. So you’ll have one small unit you plug into an electric socket that is near your router with a cable (in the kit) to link to the router. Then the other unit with antennas is plugged into a socket at the other end. This is then it’s own wireless network. There will be a small drop in bandwith in this room bit. It much.

Mesh is like the boosters described above but you don’t get any drop and it means you have one single network. But it costs more and probably overkill for your problem.

I can go and find the name of my powerline device if helpful.

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That's amazing, thank you. If you wouldnt mind that would be much appreciated.

[gl20]

Ok. It has the catchy name - TP-Link TL-WPA4220KIT 2-Port Powerline Adapter WiF

Got mine through Amazon

[toots82]

Originally Posted by gl20

Ok. It has the catchy name - TP-Link TL-WPA4220KIT 2-Port Powerline Adapter WiF

Got mine through Amazon

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Hahahaha short and snappy! Brilliant thank you. I'm addicted to amazon so I shall have fun browsing!

[Basset]

As has been said , many ways of doing this.

Personally my suggestion would be go mesh network if you can afford the budget difference -I;ve put this into a few houses for people and it has solved their wifi issues - amazon/Deco-M4-Sea...mputers&sr=1-1

You connect one of the nodes to the router and then switch off the routers own wifi network relieving the burden from the router. If you view a router as a mini computer that you leave running 24x7 and you've increased it's workload by everyone being at home, handing off some of the workload to a dedicated device improves service.

The power line adapter works well if you've got solid electrical cabling. Will be cheaper but works better if the remote device is hard wired via Ethernet rather than sending it's own wifi signal. So if the problem was a PC or a games console you put an Ethernet cable from the device into the power line adapter. The other poweline gets plugged into your a socket near your router and an ethernet cable from the router to the plug.

[toots82]

Originally Posted by Basset

As has been said , many ways of doing this.

Personally my suggestion would be go mesh network if you can afford the budget difference -I;ve put this into a few houses for people and it has solved their wifi issues - amazon/Deco-M4-Sea...mputers&sr=1-1

You connect one of the nodes to the router and then switch off the routers own wifi network relieving the burden from the router. If you view a router as a mini computer that you leave running 24x7 and you've increased it's workload by everyone being at home, handing off some of the workload to a dedicated device improves service.

The power line adapter works well if you've got solid electrical cabling. Will be cheaper but works better if the remote device is hard wired via Ethernet rather than sending it's own wifi signal. So if the problem was a PC or a games console you put an Ethernet cable from the device into the power line adapter. The other poweline gets plugged into your a socket near your router and an ethernet cable from the router to the plug.

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This is really helpful thank you.

Virgin text me back this morning and initially wanted to send me an intelligent pod and charge me a fiver a month, I reminded them that we are new customers on their top package and would expect them to be able to fix the issue without me having to pay 😊 all of a sudden it's getting sent out and isnt costing me anything. So we will give that a go... whatever it is? And go from there.

[madasahat]

it probably drops because your next door neighbour is using the same channel and they clash the router has auto channel select turned on in default to look for the best channel but this can cause problems. get someone to do a wifi scan and pick the least used channel

[RachaelC]

Originally Posted by Basset

As has been said , many ways of doing this.

Personally my suggestion would be go mesh network if you can afford the budget difference -I;ve put this into a few houses for people and it has solved their wifi issues - amazon/Deco-M4-Sea...mputers&sr=1-1

You connect one of the nodes to the router and then switch off the routers own wifi network relieving the burden from the router. If you view a router as a mini computer that you leave running 24x7 and you've increased it's workload by everyone being at home, handing off some of the workload to a dedicated device improves service.

The power line adapter works well if you've got solid electrical cabling. Will be cheaper but works better if the remote device is hard wired via Ethernet rather than sending it's own wifi signal. So if the problem was a PC or a games console you put an Ethernet cable from the device into the power line adapter. The other poweline gets plugged into your a socket near your router and an ethernet cable from the router to the plug.

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I bought this mesh system for my house last year (after initially using a 25m long Ethernet cable to connect my work laptop to the router &#128514 and it’s been brilliant. Definitely money well spent! (And no more trip hazard!)

[toots82]

Thanks everyone. I'll see what this thing is that virgin are sending and take it from there.