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So here is the scenario, 4 bed detached house with workshop in the garden. I want to access the internet in the workshop which is about 50m from the router. Router is staying where it is.
What are the options for extending coverage into the garden/workshop?
Ideally less than £100
If it's on the same circuit, powerline adaptors.
its not - the workshop is on it's own cable from the fuse box
I use these:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07F3RCZ2T
The forum tried to do something very clever with my link.
Try this: www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07F3RCZ2T
Mesh, did mine this year with it, get full signal right out into the furthest reaches of the garden now, it's excellent.
I went for the BT one, but there's lots of options now.
The simplest option is a wifi extender that you can add to your existing router but this has roughly half the bandwidth of your existing wifi as it repeats (receives and then sends) your wifi traffic. For more bandwidth look to put in a separate mesh wifi that you can plug into your router. For £100 you should be able to pick up the BT or TP-Link systems that are available through various online retailers.
BT Complete (their mesh setup) is great. Before that, we had endless problems in a very old tall house with thick walls and the router on the ground floor. Now have the main BT router on the ground floor and 3 discs, one in the kitchen that gives us decent coverage in the garden too and one each on 1st and 2nd floors. Never struggled with a Wifi signal since.
does it matter that im not with BT?
Yup, that's them, will work with any supplier, no need to be BT.
brilliant - thanks
powerlines dont have to be on the same circuit. I have tp-link ones that work fine across seperate circuits on the consumer unit and 50m of armoured cable up to the shed. not as fast as in the house but good enough.
Indeed, Powerlines do not necessarily have to be on the same circuit. They might work perfectly well. On the other hand they might not work very well on the same circuit in some cases! You really need to give them a go. Just buy and return if not suitable. That's really the best and cheapest solution if you want to extend access to one specific place (other than just running a cable). Mesh systems are great, and I am a big fan, but if there is no problem within the house already I don't see them being a great choice (and much more expensive).
Why not run a Cat5 cable out to the outhouse fom the router?
I tried a TP Link wi-fi extender, but it's no good - get a bit of a signal.
However, I had an old TP link powerline kicking about and tried it - works fine on a totally different circuit. As said, not as good as the house, but I can stream spotify/sky/netflix into my garden office
can you link to it bud? forgot i could just have texted you directly!!
@pieface because the router is in the lounge and i'd have to run a cable through 3 rooms, through the wall, along the power cable into the garage which is a LOT more effort Also it is to use wife enabled devices such as phone and tablet a opposed to a pc with ethernet port
I've got 4 or 5 powerline repeater thingies, You can have them for the postage, gimme a shout, I'll never use them again.
My garage is on a separate armoured from the main board, I'm using TPlink mains extenders and it works fine.
it is to use wife enabled devices
I have nothing to add other than this has tickled my funny receptors.
Another vote for BT disks. I have two in the house, about to go for a third to get to summer house. They just work.
BT weren't bothered about when I mentioned my garage and summer huse - despite the blurb saying it's only for in the house. I'm working from the summer house, but have the nearest mesh disc (in the garage) on cat 5 to the powerline repeater. 3 discs here from BT.