Wifi Booster ? Which is best one at the moment

[phib]

Hi All, I will start by saying I am a complete comouter numpty !!!

But basically I need a booster for my wifi, basically the router is about 50 ft from where I work within the house.

Its the latest BT home hub and we have an old house so perhaps this is why the signal drops off.

Can anyone please recomend a solution

Thanks

Phib

[jbudgie]

Use homeplugs and a wireless extender.

[phib]

Does that work if you have several ring mains ( ie if the house has several electricity systems we have 4 seperate ones) if that makes any sense ?

Phib

[Road2Ruin]

phib said:

Does that work if you have several ring mains ( ie if the house has several electricity systems we have 4 seperate ones) if that makes any sense ?

Phib

Yes. I had exactly this on my old house and they work across rings through the consumer unit.

[phib]

Consumer unit ? ( told you I didnt get this stuff !!!)

If that means the three join to give for example one electricity meter, mine doesnt and we have three seperate ones .... dont ask !!!

Phib

[AndrewEH1]

How many electrical fuse boxes do you have? The fuse box is the consumer unit.

[renmure]

The nice woman in Maplin explained it to me (very skeptical, huge house, thick walls, different fuse boards for different areas)that as long as I had one electricity meter it would work since it was all joined up. No idea if that is the proper way to think about it or not, but everything works fine and I can now get wifi access in all the remote corners of the place.

[phib]

AndrewEH1 said:

How many electrical fuse boxes do you have? The fuse box is the consumer unit.

I have 7 fuse boxes ( that I can find !!) all bar one are really really old and three electricity meters

Helpful .. not

Phib

[AndrewEH1]

I would hate to be your electrician...

As far as I am aware as long as your broadband router and the plug you want the WiFi booster to be plugged into are on the same fuse box/supply it should work.