Off Topic Wi-Fi Booster

Have had a summer house (glorified shed) built at back of garden with intention in part to use as office at home.

Router is at front of house and have some problems with signal strength upstairs bedroom never mind back of garden.

Have researched (ie looked on internet) and looks like answer might be get 2 wi-fi boosters with one going in back of house and then one in summer house. Likely cost about £80. Wi-fi Xtra Boost being the product.

Must be people on here more technical than me (PC World assistants probably know more than me) so does the above seem sensible or is there a better option and, if so, what? Remember layman’s terms I’m not a technician at NASA control.

 

I had a WiFi booster years ago and it made no difference, they're probably better now though

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00EOTHCZY/?tag=not606-21

Would something like that be any good?

 

Not sure that would get to the back of my garden. If I have read it correctly it would need to be connected at both ends and wanting to go for something which is do once and last forever. And this looks like plug, then unplug etc. Not sure if I’m right though.

 

What type did you get? There seems to be “repeaters” or “powerline adapters” or “mesh networks”. They are more expensive as you go along that list.

 

Mine was a Sky 1, not sure which type it was like, was ages ago

 

They work fine, but the wifi strength is weaker and weaker depending on how many boosters it goes through.

At the end of your garden? Signal might be a bit weak, but if you're just doing office work I imagine you will have little problems.

You plug it in and configure, I believe you plug a usb into your router and then connect to it like its a normal wifi. Very simple

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B016K5A06C/?tag=not606-21

I installed one of these at the top of my stairs last year. Recommended by my brother in law who is a tech geek and works in I.T..
I regularly sit at the bottom of my garden 50m away and get a strong signal. I've got a Firestick hooked up to a telly in the shed on the WiFi no problem.
You'll have to run an Ethernet cable directly from your router to the wireless access point. Bit of a chew on but we'll worth the effort.

Get a decent router also. Most of them that your isp provide are ****e.
I got one of these
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00HXT8EKE/?tag=not606-21

Do you have electric in the shed? If you have get yourself a homeplug. Tplink is your go to manufacturer.

WiFi boosters are ****.

 

I have a BT whole home mesh system. It’s 3 discs which effectively create a chain relay of Wi-fi and it’s given me 60mbps at the bottom of my garden.

mid you don’t have BT there are other mesh systems on amazon. Saw one for £100 yesterday I think on hotukdeals.

 

I bought a 100m cable for £8. Took 40 minutes to get it laid from front of house to the summer house.

 

This is probably your best bet mate. These Nova ones apparently come highly rated as well. My boss has a 3 story townhouse in North Tyneside and he's got about 4 or 5 of these dotted around the place and it literally does what chippy says, it creates a mesh around your house.

https://www.tendacn.com/uk/product/nova mw6.html

 

I 'use' the neighbour's. Well he is a tosser.

 

Anyone who doesn't lock their network down so people can't pilfer their internet is exactly that mate....a tosser. I suspect that's not why you think he's a tosser though. I've got a separate WAN setup for the young bloke to keep him completely separate to everything else in the house which I've currently disabled as he's a ****ing lazy ****. When I had my house rewired a few years back I got the guys doing it to pull through a load of cat5e cable and put rj45 points in all the rooms and I just terminated it all myself so most stuff is wired now rather than wireless which is a hell of a lot better. A couple of cheap unmanaged 8 or 10 port gigabit switches in a couple of rooms and I've got plenty room for expansion . It's frightening how many "devices" you have connected to your home internet nowadays like. In my office alone I have 6 (2 laptops, tv, android box, ps4 & printer) hard wired as well as an ipad and two phones connected to the wifi.

 

Do you have power sockets already installed in your shed ( run out from your home) ?

 

It’s being done this week.

 

Then just use these dLAN power lines
You plug one end into a plug socket near router, then plug your lan cable into it and the other end into router. Then in your shed plug in the other dLAN adaptor and run your lan cable into your computer
It basically uses your house power cables to distribute your broadband around any plug socket connected ( it’s not WiFi) I’ve used my for 10 years plus with no issues

 

Blatantly trying to watch porn down the bottom of the garden

 

Evening mate.
Have to say, your broadband speed is pretty rapid like

 

I was going to suggest sticking all his porn on an external hard drive and taking that into the shed as a simpler solution like