I'm currently at my parents and their wifi is quite frankly atrocious. I'm currently connected to the network and pinging anything between 6 and 2000ms where the ping command times out. I can get 40mbps where it comes in but I'm only getting 0.5mbps where my laptop is set up.
So, scene set. The line comes into the house in the far corner, where there is what I think is a fiber modem connected into a plusnet supplied wifi adsl router (It's connected via an ethernet cable just going into one of the ethernet ports). That plusnet router is then connected via ethernet to a BT powerline broadband extender, and there are two bt powerline wifi things plugged in to get wifi through the house.
Connecting wirelessly to the plusnet router gives perfect connection speeds, but since it's over in the corner of the house that's not much use. One of the powerline wifi units is in a bedroom near to the plusnet router to give my grandfather access to digital radio (There's no DAB signal out here), the other is in my parents bedroom for their radio, and it also reaches down to the living room where my laptop is. The connection speeds used to be better when there was just one of the powerline wifi units plugged in, but all the documents say that multiple ones should connect fine.
Still, I'm thinking that if we replace the plusnet router with a proper router then that should be able to cover half the house, which should negate the need for the powerline unit in my grandfathers room. And as for the rest of the house, either stick with powerline since that's what we already have, or perhaps get a non-powerline range extender to reach the rest of the house? I'm not too clued in on wireless stuff these days as I always get wired. I'm thinking we would just want something like this to replace the plusnet router and one of these somewhere in the middle of the house to get the signal the rest of the way?
How does N work with backwards compatability? If there's items such as the radio with only support g, I assume they can still connect, just at a lower speed?
tl:dr want to replace a plusnet basic router with a more powerful wifi unit with possibly a range extender. Spec me!
So, scene set. The line comes into the house in the far corner, where there is what I think is a fiber modem connected into a plusnet supplied wifi adsl router (It's connected via an ethernet cable just going into one of the ethernet ports). That plusnet router is then connected via ethernet to a BT powerline broadband extender, and there are two bt powerline wifi things plugged in to get wifi through the house.
Connecting wirelessly to the plusnet router gives perfect connection speeds, but since it's over in the corner of the house that's not much use. One of the powerline wifi units is in a bedroom near to the plusnet router to give my grandfather access to digital radio (There's no DAB signal out here), the other is in my parents bedroom for their radio, and it also reaches down to the living room where my laptop is. The connection speeds used to be better when there was just one of the powerline wifi units plugged in, but all the documents say that multiple ones should connect fine.
Still, I'm thinking that if we replace the plusnet router with a proper router then that should be able to cover half the house, which should negate the need for the powerline unit in my grandfathers room. And as for the rest of the house, either stick with powerline since that's what we already have, or perhaps get a non-powerline range extender to reach the rest of the house? I'm not too clued in on wireless stuff these days as I always get wired. I'm thinking we would just want something like this to replace the plusnet router and one of these somewhere in the middle of the house to get the signal the rest of the way?
How does N work with backwards compatability? If there's items such as the radio with only support g, I assume they can still connect, just at a lower speed?
tl:dr want to replace a plusnet basic router with a more powerful wifi unit with possibly a range extender. Spec me!
