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Hi all,
We live in a large bungalow with a sun room/conservatory at the rear and our double garage is at the opposite end of the house. We are with Now Broadband and have a Now Broadband Hub 2 as the router.
When we first moved in here, I bought two Tenda N300 plug in wifi range extenders. The one in the sun-room was primarily intended to boost the wifi signal so that if you were in the garden, you got a decent internet signal. It works pretty well.
However, the one in the garage is pretty much at the extreme edge of the signal range of the router I think (router sits in the living room and is placed pretty much in the middle of the house). All the double plug sockets are fitted on the furthest away garage wall (typical) and the router has a living room wall, utility room wall and finally a garage wall to beam the signal through. The garage extender regularly flashes orange to show a weak signal (but still just about connects although it can be flaky) and sometimes goes solid red to denote it isn't getting a signal. If you bring it inside and plug it in near to the router and then go through the link sequence again, it goes solid green - take it out to the garage and plug it in and it isn't long before it goes back to flashing orange.
The Tenda extenders were about a tenner so I'm guessing they aren't particularly powerful. What I'm looking for is a replacement plug in wifi extender for the garage which is an improvement over the Tenda N300, performance/signal strength/range wise. Speed isn't really an issue, I would simply like a stable connection in the garage, even if its not particularly rapid.
So looking for recommendations on wifi extenders, please!!
We live in a large bungalow with a sun room/conservatory at the rear and our double garage is at the opposite end of the house. We are with Now Broadband and have a Now Broadband Hub 2 as the router.
When we first moved in here, I bought two Tenda N300 plug in wifi range extenders. The one in the sun-room was primarily intended to boost the wifi signal so that if you were in the garden, you got a decent internet signal. It works pretty well.
However, the one in the garage is pretty much at the extreme edge of the signal range of the router I think (router sits in the living room and is placed pretty much in the middle of the house). All the double plug sockets are fitted on the furthest away garage wall (typical) and the router has a living room wall, utility room wall and finally a garage wall to beam the signal through. The garage extender regularly flashes orange to show a weak signal (but still just about connects although it can be flaky) and sometimes goes solid red to denote it isn't getting a signal. If you bring it inside and plug it in near to the router and then go through the link sequence again, it goes solid green - take it out to the garage and plug it in and it isn't long before it goes back to flashing orange.
The Tenda extenders were about a tenner so I'm guessing they aren't particularly powerful. What I'm looking for is a replacement plug in wifi extender for the garage which is an improvement over the Tenda N300, performance/signal strength/range wise. Speed isn't really an issue, I would simply like a stable connection in the garage, even if its not particularly rapid.
So looking for recommendations on wifi extenders, please!!
