Home Network..... How to do?

[onesea]

OK We live in an area with rubbish internet...
My misses has been getting by on Wifi to the router, however it dropped occasionally, so I stuck her on a LAN cable of a old wireless extender that has helped (daughters TV lost internet).

Today with me on Skype (I know so old fashioned that solicitors for you) and laptop her internet played hell.  So I have now put her on the Powerline thing (500Mbps) we inherited from mum we had been using on TV. So TV has not lost its LAN Cable...

Hopefully following meeting today, my daughter will be schooling with us, however the Wifi is worst in her room.  Internet dropouts frowned upon.

 

I was thinking of getting another powerline units with 2 outputs:
1) Work for Missises,
2) TV,

Existing one for daughter (she ain't that quick :D :D )
Daughters TV can go back to Wifi range extender.

Can you run 2 powerlines in one house?  Google seems to say yes?

What speed Powerline should I get:
Max internet speed is: 34.3 m/bps Download -  7.2 Upload - Unlikely to get any quicker any time soon.

Due to switch to Vodaphone Broadband next Monday, the router has "latest standards, and 1Gb-speed ethernet ports" which is probably wasted here.

Any recommendations / suggestions?

[Mississippi Bullfrog]

We live in a rural area where the broadband is limited. Our house is built so that WiFi struggles. When we first moved here the internet was useless for the first 18 months.

 

BT faffed about with it but it never improved. When it came time to change contract I indicated my intention to switch at which point they got very helpful.

 

Our available speed is similar to yours but we have BT discs around the house. I've used WiFi extenders before with limited success, but the BT discs really do work. We now get rock solid connection 95% of the time. Certainly good enough for us both to stream movies on separate iPads.

 

There is the occasional dropout but given that age and state of the copper cable to the nearest box which is half a mile away it's better than anything else we've tried.

[Bender]

Good WiFi extenders running from cable extension ie cat 5/6 cable to them, then you get a sold connection to the extender which only has to worry about WiFi to the device and not back to router, I've done this for the wife, WiFi in our extention is dire, cable out the house and back into a little wall socket, I've got some proper cable as the stuff currently outside is not exterior cable but it's been out there for 5yrs now and still working.

 

I run a cable upstairs to an un managed port which splits it to anything, kids used to game with 2 xbox's and a WiFi extender it never flickered.

[Fish]

I was until recently using Netgear kit (non-Orbi version) for my wifi at home, dropped links, slow connection, etc. So I swapped it out with https://www.scan.co.uk/products/ubiquiti-amplifi-afi-g-gamer-edition-hd-mesh-wifi-system-router-plus-2x-meshpoints-1750mbps-dual-ban

 

Hubs kept in the same places and zero issues since. OK it's not the cheapest out there but they really have got it sussed out.

 

You'll never beat a cabled connection but for wifi I'd recommend this.

 

Fish

Edited February 15, 2021 by Fish