Upgrading the home network

[Priapus]

We recently moved into our first home here in the UK; and had Sky broadband installed. The issue now is though, the WiFi signal in the house is terrible in pretty much every room, except the one were the router is. Back in my home country, I had a full UniFi setup - 16 Port PoE switch and a few APs placed around the house - so there was pretty much 100% coverage across the whole property.

I'm not looking to go to that extent again - as it would be overkill. Looking for good recommendation on extending the WiFi in a 5 bed detached house. Looked at a few mesh ideas, but don't want to have to buy something to find out it's wrong.

Can I change the Sky router too, for something else or is it specific to be connected to the ONT?

 

[Priapus]

Can Sky not help you with this? They do offer additional WiFi products, and a WiFi guarantee.

Looking at my bill; I see I am paying £4 for WiFi boost. Perhaps I need to give them a ring. Thanks.

 

[Priapus]

Can Sky not help you with this? They do offer additional WiFi products, and a WiFi guarantee.

I see they only guarantee 3mb/s, which is simply not good enough.

 

[Priapus]

Another +1 for going the unifi route again. Unless you're only staying in the UK temporarily, or in that home temporarily.

Any other solution is just going to be a half attempt that you'll throw money at and still be unhappy about. May as well do it right the first time.

I'm probably staying in the house for a year and the UK for the foreseeable future. I'll take another look at some UniFi stuff. I do really like their kit.

I run my own router with sky.

They don’t officially support it, if you have an issue then you have to put back their equipment before they’ll talk to you but not really a big deal.

There’s a few guides online about what settings / user name and passwords you need to get set up.

The supplied sky router was pretty pants tbh but other than that they’ve been good. I had a couple of issues with fibre ports (not their fault) and they arranged really quick openreach call outs

Okay that's good to know; their router is pretty crap. Thanks for the info.

 

[Priapus]

Are you not able to put a wired network in?

I did the whole house for about £120 including tools and an 8 port unmanaged switch.

For a rented property, that is more than I am willing to do.

 

[Priapus]

With FTTP it actually makes it more of a breeze to use your own networking kit. Previously, even with FTTC most ISP routers could not be placed into modem mode, so unless you went down the double NAT route, you were mostly stuck with it.

I got fed up after changing providers with having to modify every device again to join a new network. This way all my ubiquiti gear stays as is regardless of ISP and any change to a different ISP is mostly transparent to my devices that connect to the network.

We have FTTP I believe. There is an ONT box on the wall and the Sky router just plugs into that via a ethernet cable.