Noob - Increasing my WiFi connectivity

Tim Nelson

Tim Nelson

Tim Nelson

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Hi all - this is my first post so forgive me being a noob!

At home I have a simple modem provided by my service provider EE. We’ve probably had that modem for a good couple of years now. We live in a very old house that has quite thick walls and in our area, the maximum speeds we can get from EE at the moment are 36mbps. However, when I’m sat at my desk in one corner of the house - I’m typically getting 10-12mbps max and my devices in that corner of the house are reading 1 bar of connectivity instead of 3.

So, I’m looking for advice on how to improve the speeds and connectivity.

I’m not sure whether to get an updated modem from EE or do I buy a branded modem that’s going to be better quality - and what should I be looking at?

After this I’m guessing I need to look at investing in a mesh system round the house?

Any help would be much appreciated!


Thanks
 
I’ve heard of Powerline adaptors but don’t know much about them and wondered how they compare to mesh systems and other options.

So Powerline adaptors seem to be the way to go! This is brilliant, thanks guys. Do you need an adaptor in each room?

Paul_RD - you’ve answered my next post already. After figuring out how to sort the house, we were looking at trying to get WiFi into a small garden office. We are having power put into there via a 10mm armoured cable. I take it, that as this is connected to our mains supply (albeit via 3 Phase) that Powerline adaptors will provide connectivity to The garden office?
 
Thanks both! Lots of food for thought.

bremen1874, in any of my previous houses I would network the house, but this house is listed (I.e pain in the backside and expensive) so was hoping to avoid cabling and handle across WiFi.

Paul_RD - we’re having to put the outside office on its own separate phase - will this stop us from using Powerline adaptors in the garden? If you could check with your neighbour - this would be amazing!

thanks so much for your help guys
 
So we have a 3 phase system in our house and we’re utilising one of the phases for the summer house/office + BBQ area as there’s a few things that we’re going to be running including lighting and sockets at the summer house.

The feed is coming from house and there will be a 3way external consumer unit at the summer house.

Ok, so it sounds like the only way to get connectivity up there would be to run an Ethernet cable from the EE modem (Currently sitting in the middle of the house), up the garden to summer house?
 
Thanks Bledd but that could be difficult due to the nature of the house.

bremen1874 - thanks for all the advice. I’ll look into running fibre outside. Back to my original question for the interior of my house - am I right in thinking Powerline adaptors will still work as the inside of the house is on the same phase?

Aside from running cable to each room (which is a big, complex job) Powerline adaptors sound like my best option?
 
Bremen - A few hundred Mbps is the stuff of dreams...! I can only think about that when they upgrade the local exchange.

But granted, I take your point about the good returns policy!
 
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