Advice needed on Wireless Extender

Zantrova

Zantrova

Zantrova

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Salutations,

I am looking for an efficient Wireless extender for home use. The home in question is 4 floors, and the bottom 2 floors go into basement level.

Can anyone suggest a good quality Wireless Extender that will strengthen the signal to other laptops, Ipads and the like?

It's not for me, it's for a friend.

Thanks in advance
 
I tried a lot of things and the best solution I find is to buy Homeplugs and if you need wireless access at the end of a Homeplug just put a wireless access point there. Will give you much more stable and reliable connection to the internet. Plug something like http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=NW-038-EX&groupid=46&catid=1837&subcat= into a Homeplug wherever you like and you can experiment in the house to see where is most suitable. You can have as many access points as you like really.

I've tried Wireless boosters and what not and they are very temperamental and just couldn't get them work as well as I wanted.
 
Bump..... lol cheeky

how about you tell us the router you have already? are you using the rebadged Cisco one that BT gave you or is it one you have bought?

best way of doing it is to cable from the existing router down to the basment and use a basic wireless access point. failing that you would need a access point/router that supports wireless bridge and is compatible with your current router.
 
Yeah wired is even better than Homeplugs.

Also the Edimax Access Point I listed fairly basic and only wireless so can't plug any ethernet cables in. If you have any spare routers you can make them into access points as well.
 
Hi ,

Thanks for advice, yeah sorry for the bump but this was in the 3rd page without any replies :)

It is just the standard router that you get, nothing fancy.

Could you recommend a wireless access point if one was to wire it down to the basement?
 
ive just got a Netgear universal WiFi Range Extender today and its made a massive difference to mine, i can now sit at the bottom of the garden in the summer happily watching some netflix in the sun :)
 
Zantrova said:
Could you recommend a wireless access point if one was to wire it down to the basement?
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That would be ideal. Any wireless router should be able to act as a wireless access point provided you switch off DHCP in the settings of the access point.

Two ways then to get the wire down there. 1) Ethernet Cat5e/6 or 2) Homeplugs.

You could probably pick up an access point for a small amount second hand and cable is pretty cheap too.

Wireless extenders are ok and do the job but cannot match the benefit and error free running of a wired connection back to the main router.
 
Zantrova said:
up to £40 let's say
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http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=NW-038-EX&groupid=46&catid=1837&subcat=

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=NW-030-TP&groupid=46&catid=1837&subcat=

Think both of those would work quite well within that budget. Like I said if you have a spare router lying around you can usually easily convert them into Access Points however with the above it is just plug and play so more simple. Keep an eye on the forums and ebay and I'm sure you might find the above or similar cheaper.

I can't comment about the TP-Link but reviews are positive however I have the Edimax one and as a wireless extender it was pretty average however as an access point found it to be very good. Have a 100MB connection and used to get 30MB + via wireless on this which is good because even at my main router I didn't get much more than that.
 
I got a TP-Link extender - the £28 one - today and it seems excellent. Not the most configurable thing ever but better than sky/bt/talktalk routers etc - enough for the job, anyway. Took about 5 minutes to set up as an AP wired in to the router, and looks like it would take about the same amount of work to get it set up as a wireless extender - just input the SSID and security information, enter the main AP's MAC and off you go.
 
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