Wireless network problems

[Regy53]

Hi All,

I have looked through this page but could not find much.

Basically I have Sky fibre and the sky supplied router. our oldish house phone line is right by the front door and our walls are all brick.

As such the wireless performance in certain rooms is poor. We also have a good 15 connections in this house i suppose

3 x phones
2 x tablets
3 x laptops
1 x pc
3 x kodi
1 x netflix
1 x tv
1 x xbox

Obviously not on all the time, In the loft conversion the connection is to poor to get a connection thats reliable.

Recently then i bought a netgear £15 wireless extender that now resides in the hallway mid floor.

Initially everything was dandy, this little booster was unreal made everywhere full signal, but more recently only in the loft, every now and then we cannot connect to anything, both routers stating incorrect password and just connection problems in general. If i walk downstairs with my laptop. Boom connected straight away. This is becoming more and more of a problem.

I cant think of anything interfering with it, but could the wireless extender be interfering? I am stumped and its really frustrating.

Thanks
Ross

 

[holdin09]

Extenders aren't the best to be honest, all they do is repeat the original signal and it isn't as "clean".

A short term solution is look what channels the wifi signals are on. They should be on 1,6 or 11. But both shouldn't be on the same.

I had a similar problem to you that I could't get good signal all over the house, so I replace my main router to a tp-link and using powerline adapters used my old bt home hub as a wireless access point upstairs.

 

[BigT]

So the best solution,which everyone on here will tell you, is to run Ethernet cables from your router to where there is low wifi signal and put an access point on the end of it. Proble, solved with the fastest speed and most reliable.

If that isn't feasible then look into power line adapters to use the mains instead of the Ethernet cable. This will be OK if you have low bandwidth requirements where there's currently low/no signal, but it's always going to be better to run a bit of Cat5/6

 

[Orcvader]

So the best solution,which everyone on here will tell you, is to run Ethernet cables from your router to where there is low wifi signal and put an access point on the end of it. Proble, solved with the fastest speed and most reliable.

If that isn't feasible then look into power line adapters to use the mains instead of the Ethernet cable. This will be OK if you have low bandwidth requirements where there's currently low/no signal, but it's always going to be better to run a bit of Cat5/6

+1 to this, it's the best way to get a good strong signal everywhere.

Maybe the loft needs its own AP as well?

 

[CrimsonAvenger]

Another vote for poweline adapters - nice and easy.

IF you've got the time and are handy with DIY then run some ethernet cable like the others have said.

Extenders=poor IMHO.