IAmOrion
Occasional Visitor
Hi all,
Came across this forum whilst doing some research regarding my FTTP Sky Broadband. Long story short, the Sky Hub kept rebooting at random, customer service help was less than desirable, so I dug out my old ASUS RT-AC86U to give it a whirl. I found guides on here on how to set it working with FTTP and so far it's been working great - for the most part anyways.
Some background now, I've just moved into a rented, brand new build. I'm the first tenant. There's no landlines, it's direct FTTP only. Now, as wonderful as that is, the builders / architect / whoever clearly weren't very tech knowledgable!! Whilst they did install RJ45 sockets around the house using Cat 6 cabling, for some stupid reason they decided to a) have the FTTP enter the property into the under-stairs, small cupboard which also houses the immersion tank / heating stuff, right at the back. and b) have all the household sockets route back to the same place, next to the ONT. I honestly don't know what the hell they were thinking!! Literally THEE WORST possible place to be putting a WiFi router! The hottest little cupboard in the entire house that's also surrounded by metal, wiring, water piping and a WiFi (Samsung Joule) thing etc etc - you get the idea - absolutely stupid place for it!
But alas, I can't move it, nothing I can do and not feasible (nor plausible) to somehow extend the power, ONT and also ethernet cables anywhere else or even outside the cupboard. The ASUS router was reporting temps in the low 90. I found posts about using fans etc, and I am now at a decent 50-60 max. So that was one issue sorted, and this leads me to my question.... My WiFi devices are struggling to get a decent signal unless stood by the sodding cupboard!
Since I'm pretty poor, and can't afford to start building a fancy mesh network with multiple wifi routers / extenders etc, is there any thing anyone can recommend that I can use to perhaps boost the antenna signal? Or even use instead of the antennas that it comes with? Something like the attached picture for example (Which is intended for use with a dual wifi card in computer rather than a router) but for a router?
Many thanks in advance
Came across this forum whilst doing some research regarding my FTTP Sky Broadband. Long story short, the Sky Hub kept rebooting at random, customer service help was less than desirable, so I dug out my old ASUS RT-AC86U to give it a whirl. I found guides on here on how to set it working with FTTP and so far it's been working great - for the most part anyways.
Some background now, I've just moved into a rented, brand new build. I'm the first tenant. There's no landlines, it's direct FTTP only. Now, as wonderful as that is, the builders / architect / whoever clearly weren't very tech knowledgable!! Whilst they did install RJ45 sockets around the house using Cat 6 cabling, for some stupid reason they decided to a) have the FTTP enter the property into the under-stairs, small cupboard which also houses the immersion tank / heating stuff, right at the back. and b) have all the household sockets route back to the same place, next to the ONT. I honestly don't know what the hell they were thinking!! Literally THEE WORST possible place to be putting a WiFi router! The hottest little cupboard in the entire house that's also surrounded by metal, wiring, water piping and a WiFi (Samsung Joule) thing etc etc - you get the idea - absolutely stupid place for it!
But alas, I can't move it, nothing I can do and not feasible (nor plausible) to somehow extend the power, ONT and also ethernet cables anywhere else or even outside the cupboard. The ASUS router was reporting temps in the low 90. I found posts about using fans etc, and I am now at a decent 50-60 max. So that was one issue sorted, and this leads me to my question.... My WiFi devices are struggling to get a decent signal unless stood by the sodding cupboard!
Since I'm pretty poor, and can't afford to start building a fancy mesh network with multiple wifi routers / extenders etc, is there any thing anyone can recommend that I can use to perhaps boost the antenna signal? Or even use instead of the antennas that it comes with? Something like the attached picture for example (Which is intended for use with a dual wifi card in computer rather than a router) but for a router?
Many thanks in advance