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[AHarvey]

Hi all,

My current set up involves the router being in my office upstairs, however we've a lot of items downstairs that use the wifi, one of which is my Pi.

When its next to the router there are no issues, but move it into the lounge and it has buffering/stuttering issues with certain films.

So, I'm ideally after suggestions for some sort of wifi signal hub that would connect via wifi to my Sky router upstairs, then allow me to connect via wifi or cable to that.

Any suggestions? Don't want to break the bank but as my office will be moving to a custom shed at the bottom of the garden soon I may need something that can be chained to other boosters or via a cable.

 

[Steveocee]

So you want to place a device in an area that receives bad wifi signal to connect wirelessly to the sky box upstairs and then forward good signal to the rest of devices downstairs?

See the hole in that logic? Downstairs has bad wifi therefore a box that connects by wireless is only going to get bad signal.

A good solution would be getting a cheap and cheerful router that can be turned into a wireless access point and running 2 cables down from upstairs to down. 1 to connect it and 1 spare in case the first ever goes wrong. You then have strong wireless downstairs carried by an overspecced cable to the main router upstairs.

 

[AHarvey]

So you want to place a device in an area that receives bad wifi signal to connect wirelessly to the sky box upstairs and then forward good signal to the rest of devices downstairs?

See the hole in that logic? Downstairs has bad wifi therefore a box that connects by wireless is only going to get bad signal.

A good solution would be getting a cheap and cheerful router that can be turned into a wireless access point and running 2 cables down from upstairs to down. 1 to connect it and 1 spare in case the first ever goes wrong. You then have strong wireless downstairs carried by an overspecced cable to the main router upstairs.

Downstairs has good wifi for the laptops/phones, but the Raspi adapter isn't up to scratch. I can get a new one for that for £15 but it may not work and the raspi has limited power available compared to a full unit. Hence me looking for a decent solution

Plus, when I move office I'll be looking at running a cable from the office to the lounge. Which is the solution you suggested in the second part. I may have my old router knocking around so i'll see if I can get that running as I need.

 

[Steveocee]

If your other devices are ok for wireless then I'd write it off as a duff wireless adapter on the pi.
The power to the pi adapter shouldn't make much of a difference as its USB so should be across the board equally.

 

[Puzzled]

If you'd rather connect the pi by cable then you could try a WiFi access point. Just receives the signal and lets you plug devices in.

Sky were giving them away at one point so people could connect the older sky boxes by WiFi.

You'd need a decent signal downstairs though.