Hello Thanks For Reading, Any Advice Welcomed.
I’m looking to get Stable Wifi throughout the whole building
My Situation:
1. I live in a 3 level property large property 16m x 8 m roughly in size, thick walls, Victorian building
2. I don’t have Fibre option in my area, still old school broadband something around 15mb download is usual but top end for the foreseeable.
3. My current set up is a bt home hub 4. I use a powerline tp link 200mps just to get the wifi to the back end of the same floor as the router (as the router wifi doesn’t cover even one floor), which is then connected to an apple airport access point. I also own but do not currently use an edimax ew-7416apn v2 access point.
4. I receive very patchy to no wifi signal on the other 2 floors.
5. Until today I did not believe a powerline would connect to the router on the floor 1 as all 3 floors have their own fuse box. But I am wrong and I tested the powerline and it connects fine on floor 2 (got 13mb down on speed test), and on floor 3 the speed dropped out considerably (0.5mb), I’m guessing either due to inference and/or length of power cable from the router (on floor 1) to the plug (on floor 3). Maybe it was too far for the tplink powerline.
My options:
1. If anyone is near to Northampton, uk. who does this for a living and wants to come set this up in exchange for cash. I’d be happy to hear from you
2. Failing the above, Will Changing my router help? I believe not? I read somewhere on this that speeds drop out considerably over distance with wifi on most routers
3. My original plan was to drill holes through the floors and just Ethernet from router on floo 1 to edimax on floor 2 and drill again through floor and connect to another access point on floor 3. I believe this is more stable than a powerline but it looks unsightly and I don’t fancy drilling through whatever potentially is important below my floorboards.
4. I’m looking for recommendations for equipment, new powerline? I need multiple powerlines working from 1 router that aren’t going to conflict; I have no knowledge so plug and play options preferred. If needs be a new router, if it will help on wifi range. And maybe access points if the powerlines suggested don’t have wifi or the wifi range is poor. In all these cases please bear in mind I have poor phone line internet and don’t need the highest transfer rate , just stable usable internet.
I’m looking to get Stable Wifi throughout the whole building
My Situation:
1. I live in a 3 level property large property 16m x 8 m roughly in size, thick walls, Victorian building
2. I don’t have Fibre option in my area, still old school broadband something around 15mb download is usual but top end for the foreseeable.
3. My current set up is a bt home hub 4. I use a powerline tp link 200mps just to get the wifi to the back end of the same floor as the router (as the router wifi doesn’t cover even one floor), which is then connected to an apple airport access point. I also own but do not currently use an edimax ew-7416apn v2 access point.
4. I receive very patchy to no wifi signal on the other 2 floors.
5. Until today I did not believe a powerline would connect to the router on the floor 1 as all 3 floors have their own fuse box. But I am wrong and I tested the powerline and it connects fine on floor 2 (got 13mb down on speed test), and on floor 3 the speed dropped out considerably (0.5mb), I’m guessing either due to inference and/or length of power cable from the router (on floor 1) to the plug (on floor 3). Maybe it was too far for the tplink powerline.
My options:
1. If anyone is near to Northampton, uk. who does this for a living and wants to come set this up in exchange for cash. I’d be happy to hear from you
2. Failing the above, Will Changing my router help? I believe not? I read somewhere on this that speeds drop out considerably over distance with wifi on most routers
3. My original plan was to drill holes through the floors and just Ethernet from router on floo 1 to edimax on floor 2 and drill again through floor and connect to another access point on floor 3. I believe this is more stable than a powerline but it looks unsightly and I don’t fancy drilling through whatever potentially is important below my floorboards.
4. I’m looking for recommendations for equipment, new powerline? I need multiple powerlines working from 1 router that aren’t going to conflict; I have no knowledge so plug and play options preferred. If needs be a new router, if it will help on wifi range. And maybe access points if the powerlines suggested don’t have wifi or the wifi range is poor. In all these cases please bear in mind I have poor phone line internet and don’t need the highest transfer rate , just stable usable internet.
