Best Solution for extending Wi-Fi throughout house with brick walls?

strocky

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Layout
2 Story House (front 4 rooms brick wall 1950's)
Back 4 rooms (modern plasterboard extension)
Mancave (mix of old brick with modern plasterboard inside)

Current Kit
Three 5G Router (currently situated in front of house(
TP Link 1300 AV / TL-PA8010P Extenders (3 off in total - One for each bedroom)
Ubiquiti UAP-AC-LR Access Point (was used to boost wifi from house into mancave)
15 Metres Outdoor Lan cable (running from front of house over roof into mancave at rear garden)
Multiple 1Gigabit Switches + 1 off 2.5Gb switch

Main Clients
3 off - Wifi Tablets (all around house)
4 off - Wifi Phones (all around house)
2 off - Nvidia Shields (pref wired) (one in mancave / one in back bedroom)
1 off - HTPC Server (deffo wired and in mancave)

Coverage required approx 160 Square Meters, would like at least ethernet access in one of the bedrooms

As you can see the above is a hot-potch fix and not terribly reliable, it's also been made semi-redundant because I had access to 2 No. Three 5G Routers so ran one in the mancave wired and one in the house to serve the bedrooms via wifi

However the 2nd 5G router is away at the end of the month so I either need to get the old band back together or open to suggestions for a more cohesive solution
 
Re the Unifi AP, would this pass muster on a more budget conscious basis which you can pick up for £25 a unit from a well know high street store

Google WiFi Whole Home System 2016​


I would assume the main issue with the above would be powering them up with an adaptor vs PoE on the Unifi?
 
Grim5 said:
Wifi doesn't like bricks; the good solution is to lay Ethernet to each part of the house including each room and connect the Ethernet to an access point. If you have easy access under the house then laying wire to the whole house should be easy and very tidy. Alternatively you can lay the Ethernet through the ceiling


One other option that could work and I've seen it work before - if your ceiling is thin plaster board then you could install several wifi access points inside the ceiling, place one AP right above each room and then you should have strong wifi everywhere as the APs talk to eachother through the open cavity of the ceiling and then the signal goes down through the plaster into the room and never needs to pass through any walls. This solution is very clean because there won't be any exposed wires nor will you have ugly AP boxes all over the house - however it's only possible in a single story house
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That sounds a good wee hack, unfortunately I'm in a 2 story
 
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