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psaila

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Hi. In my house I have some rooms which cannot be reached by a network extender so I guess the best solution are home plugs. However I have one question.

Are there home plugs that then transmit wifi or you need to connect to them through a cable to acess internet?

Thanks
 
Punk

Punk

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Have you tried repeaters? If you place them at a good spot they'll relay the Wifi. I actually did that to my parent's house a month ago. Wifi is now accessible everywhere perfectly in the house.
 
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psaila

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Punk said:
Have you tried repeaters? If you place them at a good spot they'll relay the Wifi. I actually did that to my parent's house a month ago. Wifi is now accessible everywhere perfectly in the house.
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What are repeaters please? How do they work?
 
Geoff

Geoff

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If your house is large, you may want to invest in an additional wireless access point. Say you have one on the 1st floor west room and another on the 3rd floor east room. These two wireless access points would then be hard wired back to your modem/router.
 
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psaila

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Geoff said:
If your house is large, you may want to invest in an additional wireless access point. Say you have one on the 1st floor west room and another on the 3rd floor east room. These two wireless access points would then be hard wired back to your modem/router.
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Can they be hardwired through homeplugs? Can I connect one home plug to my modem and one to an extender to convert the signal to wireless?
 
Intel_man

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psaila said:
Can they be hardwired through homeplugs? Can I connect one home plug to my modem and one to an extender to convert the signal to wireless?
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Are you looking for maximum speed or just a decent wireless signal that will give you at best 20~ish mbps?
 
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psaila

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Intel_man said:
Are you looking for maximum speed or just a decent wireless signal that will give you at best 20~ish mbps?
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This is my problem.. I have wireless modem and then a network extender. So I go near the extender and I connect to wifi from my router and I get 30Mbps. From the same place (exactly) near the extender I connect to the extender and I get a max of 5Mbps so the extender is stepping it down drastically. What might the problem be. I bought my extender 3 years ago, I don't think it needs to be changed.
 
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psaila

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beers said:
Problem identified.

Most cheap extenders will just rebroadcast on the same channel, so your PC ends up waiting to send its data because it sees someone transmitting data on that channel already (from the repeater).
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It wasn't so cheap, around €45
 
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psaila

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Can you provide a link to a good extender that I can buy. It has to have English plug and preferably from Europe.

Thanks
 
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