BT Wifi extenders

[softtop]

Hi all, looking for some guidance before ordering some kit.

I have 2x Mini Wifi 500 hot spot extenders, they connect in the house through the mains electricity and that is great as it covers the house given it is long and narrow with a big thick wall half way through, hence the extender.

I am wanting to extend further by placing another extender into a garden shed. The power for this is fed from the main circuit board into another consumer unit in the garage. If I purchased the new 600 range extenders as the 500 range has been discontinued, will this be compatible and do you foresee any issues with continuity of mains connectivity?

Cabling from the last extender is not realistic as I have no way of hiding a cable into a wall since it is all newly finished and I don't want to go there

Thanks

[thebraketester]

It would be better to use access point to get a connection to the shed.

[softtop]

thanks for that, are you saying a cable from the router into the shed?

This means running a cable externally along the house and then some form of cable burying which is a lot of effort, is this what you are thinking? Thanks

[Australiam]

Sorry - I am not sure of the specifics of the range extenders you are looking at. However, Mesh systems have come down in price a lot, and are worth considering. I have the most basic Mesh at home (Tenda Nova) and it works a treat (given the way we use the internet).

edit: given the comments above about the cable run. The coverage of the modules is much greater than my ISP router, so you may find a cable is not required.

Edited by Australiam on Thursday 4th April 11:10

[softtop]

Australiam said:

Sorry - I am not sure of the specifics of the range extenders you are looking at. However, Mesh systems have come down in price a lot, and are worth considering. I have the most basic Mesh at home (Tenda Nova) and it works a treat (given the way we use the internet).

edit: given the comments above about the cable run. The coverage of the modules is much greater than my ISP router, so you may find a cable is not required.

Edited by Australiam on Thursday 4th April 11:10

thanks for that.

[thebraketester]

softtop said:

thanks for that, are you saying a cable from the router into the shed?

This means running a cable externally along the house and then some form of cable burying which is a lot of effort, is this what you are thinking? Thanks

No.... one access point in the house and one in the shed. It forms a wireless bridge. No wires between the house and shed needed

[softtop]

thebraketester said:

softtop said:

thanks for that, are you saying a cable from the router into the shed?

This means running a cable externally along the house and then some form of cable burying which is a lot of effort, is this what you are thinking? Thanks

No.... one access point in the house and one in the shed. It forms a wireless bridge. No wires between the house and shed needed

sounds ideal, what kit would you recommend?

[henrycrun]

Buy the Mini 600 from Argos - if no good take it back ?

[wilwak]

I’ve tried all sorts of Wi-fi solutions with mixed success. I find the power line systems drop connection regularly.

I’ve just bought the three disc mesh system by BT from Amazon. It’s about £200.

What a transformation! It’s superb.

We were so impressed that I fitted the same system in my friends house and he’s over the moon with it too.

The discs decide themselves whether to work from the hub or daisy chain.

If you had a disc on the house window sill nearest the shed and another disc in the shed it could work well. Depends on your distances.

Certainly worth a look. We feel it was money well spent.

[thebraketester]

softtop said:

thebraketester said:

softtop said:

thanks for that, are you saying a cable from the router into the shed?

This means running a cable externally along the house and then some form of cable burying which is a lot of effort, is this what you are thinking? Thanks

No.... one access point in the house and one in the shed. It forms a wireless bridge. No wires between the house and shed needed

sounds ideal, what kit would you recommend?

Ubiquiti nanostations are great.

[driverrob]

wilwak said:

I’ve tried all sorts of Wi-fi solutions with mixed success. I find the power line systems drop connection regularly.

I’ve just bought the three disc mesh system by BT from Amazon. It’s about £200.

What a transformation! It’s superb....

We feel it was money well spent.

We have fibre to the premises at 200Mb/s. WiFi will give me between 100 and 170 but a short cat5 cable from the nearest disc into my Dell desktop gives full measure.

We have extra dense concrete walls and previous attempts at WiFi all gave poor speeds and break-up.

Edited by driverrob on Thursday 4th April 21:53

[Hub]

I use Devolo homeplugs for my garden room - I assume the same sort of setup as you are talking about using the electricity circuit etc. The power is on a separate fuse box in the garage, but that runs from the main fuse box in the house. The critical aspect is that they are on the same electricity circuit I think,but it works really well.

[shtu]

softtop said:

If I purchased the new 600 range extenders as the 500 range has been discontinued, will this be compatible and do you foresee any issues with continuity of mains connectivity?

The BT ones you have are to the Powerline AV standard.

There's a good matrix here, https://www.solwise.co.uk/net-powerline-features-i...

Two options to consider,

Buy new 1.2Gbps ones.
or
Hit eBay and buy a couple of the same type as you already have.

[softtop]

Thanks everybody for the responses, I will get myself organised and report back.

[motco]

For what it's worth I tried my IP camera on my shed (normally in the garage) which is about thirty metres away. It's run through a TP-Link powerline adapter (one of three) and it worked perfectly even though the shed is connected by a long armoured cable from the house.