Home connectivity help

Snookums · 15 Apr 2015 at 18:31

Since moving out of my parents house for uni they have been doing the place up. I've come back this easter to a predicament of essentially an Internet less bedroom. The wifi will not reach my room at all or an way I know of for wired This is the first time it's really affected as previously my desk was in the living room area. Anyway I need help finding a way to get internet in my room. Since ive been home ive tried wifi boosters, these are crap apprently, bought powerline adapters and for some reason they don't work in my house but work at my uni home so it's not those.

All I can think is to run an ethernet through my loft for my pc, not ideal though. I need to keep the talk talk router as for some reason no other router works with the talk talk tv box. No idea why. What's the best way to combat this if any?

Minstadave · 15 Apr 2015 at 18:32

If you can't change the router, wifi boosters don't work and you can't have home plugs then you're going to be running cable.

Snookums · 15 Apr 2015 at 20:02

Thought so, pretty much stuffed for using my phone in my room then. Thanks anyway.

thenewoc · 15 Apr 2015 at 20:40

3G or 4G signal any good? If so, could use an android smart phone as an access point or use a 3G or 4G router.

Not sure if there are still any truely unlimited data plans but depends what your needs are as to whether that is an issue or not.

Snookums · 16 Apr 2015 at 10:08

No 3G and 4g are a no go. I live in the sticks and don't even get fibre let a lone a decent phone signal.

bremen1874 · 16 Apr 2015 at 12:28

How much additional wireless range do you need? Could you add a router/access point with better wireless next to the existing router? If you used one with detachable antennas you could use high-gain or even directional antennas.

Buffalo2102 · 18 Apr 2015 at 08:20

You can change the router but you need one that supports WMM (wifi multimedia) so that the TalkTalk IPTV will work. I bought a used Netgear WNDR4500 and that has multicast support so it replaces the TalkTalk router nicely. I now have a nice 1Gbps wired network and good range dual-band wireless and it works flawlessly for me.

I am on fibre so as you are on ADSL the WNDR4500 won't work for you (no ADSL modem), unless you connect it to your existing router and use it as the wireless access point (as suggested by Bremen1874 above).

Having said that, there is still no guarantee that a replacement router will solve your issue. The only sure-fire way of resolving it is to run a cable....