Additional Broadband Hub

[Gissing]

The odd shape and thick walls of my house means that broadband won't work in some rooms. I use a BT router. Can I simply plug an additional BT router into the telephone socket in one of the out-of-reach rooms to get a connection everywhere, or is it more complicated than that?

[paul1763]

i cannot give definate answer to your question, but i also had same sort of problem as you. my solution was to use phone extension lead and place router as centrally as possible in house.

[mikey4444]

You can buy router "boosters", which amplify the signal. Try PC World, etc.

[rojash]

No you can't.
But there is an easy solution: Ethernet over mains.
With this kit, you plug one end in a power socket near your router, and link by ethernet tothe router.
Plug the other one into a socket where you need a signal.
Amazon.co.uk User Recommendation

[rojash]

...there are a number of other solutions, but this one is so simple - it's just plug in, press a button, and go. This is how I get wireless throughout my house, even though it has metre thick stone walls, and is some way from my office where the router is located. Once the router is hooked up to the mains transmitter, you can add repeaters in other rooms if required, and they may either be wireless, or wired

[alavahalf]

Sorry to butt in Gissing .... but it's another question further to your query..
When the TP link is used , will it only work on the circuit that the router is on.
A friend of mine has a workshop at the end of his garden where he gets no signal from his wireless router.
The workshop has it's own fusebox, and I could'nt say that he would get a connection due to there being two separate circuits. It would be good to know before buying it.

[rojash]

alavahalf:
The only way to know if it will work is to try it (which is easy if you source from Amazon - if it don't work, send it back).
It works for me:
Router is in the office, power in the office has it's own fuseboard which is connected to another fuseboard in the annexe. The fuseboard in the annexe is sourced from the fuseboard in the house.

There are lots of caveats in the instructions which indicate that it shouldn't work for me, but it does. As well as the convoluted routing, I have to connect both units by means of UK to European adaptors.

[alavahalf]

Thanks for that ... the people that sell them are usually baffled when you ask the same question.

[Mosaic]

I have a virginmedia 'superhub' (ho ho) which on its own only serves half the house. We've re-applied our old belkin router in series with the virginmedia one, but used a very long ethernet cable so the additional router is placed t'other side of the problematical supporting wall. Tinterweb now goes like excrement from a digging implement.

[Gissing]

Thank you everybody. Will investigate these possible solutions.

[Milvus]

You can also link routers wirelessly using a bridge mode. This is very simple and overcomes the problem of multiple electric circuits

[bazwillrun]

TP-Link Wireless N Range Extender TL-0WA830RE
Around £30

works a charm unless yo live in a country mansion sized place !