Increasing Wifi coverage

tweedbean · 12 Sep 2016 at 13:55

My current home setup is a homehub 5 in the centre of the house, providing wifi coverage throughout the house. We then have ethernet cables running off this to a home network covering the lounge, kitchen and bedrooms.

We have a final ethernet cable that runs out through the garage then outside into a home office/cinema room we have installed in our garden. This gets us wired connection via a switch to my mac, xbox, skyQ etc in the office but no wifi coverage as its too far from the homehub 5. What would I need to connect off that switch via an ethernet cable create wifi coverage in there? Is it a further router? Access point?

joeyjojo · 12 Sep 2016 at 14:35

tweedbean said:
Access point?

You got it.

You can buy an access point, or set up almost any integrated unit (modem/router/AP) to be one.

The unit you need depends on the throughput required down there, and the wifi range. If it's short range to just a few regular devices you need something a lot less special than transferring masses of data, for example.

tweedbean · 12 Sep 2016 at 18:09

It's just to support iPhone and an iPad as all other devices run off a wired connection. Any recommendations?

DIABLO · 12 Sep 2016 at 18:26

tweedbean said:
It's just to support iPhone and an iPad as all other devices run off a wired connection. Any recommendations?

https://www.ubnt.com/unifi/unifi-ap-ac-pro/ If you want to go the whole hog
https://www.ubnt.com/unifi/unifi-ap-ac-lite/ the cheaper option.
Thread here https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18726947&highlight=ubiquiti

Or you could setup a old wireless router up to do the same if you have one lying around.