Broadband signal boosters

[Seventy]

Luddite warning.

Want to boost the broadband signal in a building in the garden approx 30 meters from the BT hub in the house. There is power.

Best way?

TIA.

[Blockbuster]

Of course the answer you are going to get is to do things properly and bury a Cat 6 cable from your router to the outbuilding or pay for some OTT Ubiquity system.

However a less hassle way would be either a mesh WiFi system or powerline adapters. I’ve used both successfully to supply the summerhouse at the bottom of my garden.

I’m currently using a set of 3 x TP-Link Deco M5’s, one downstairs at the front of the house, one upstairs at the back of the house, and one in the summerhouse itself and getting full speed everywhere including all over the back garden..

Previous setup was a cheap powerline adapter, and this worked ok but speeds were reduced significantly. However it was still fast enough for everything including streaming Netflix on the iPad and Skype calls.

[wombleh]

If it’s on the same mains circuit then I’d agree powerline is easiest and fairly cheap too so not a huge loss if you try and it doesn’t work.

Long range APs would be my next choice but that’ll be more effort to make work.

[nyt]

I use TP-Link Deco P9s

Use both mesh & powerline tech to link up. They've been excellent. However, simple powerline would be cheaper.

You can often get a set of 3 for about £165 if you are patient.


https://www.amazon.co.uk/Deco-P9-Powerline-coverag...

[Road2Ruin]

Definitely powerline for this one. Plug one in at each end and done. If you want WiFi, get the WiFi version and plug that one in the garden end. You will probably get speeds of 20-30Mbps which is more than adequate. You may even get more, depending on your current broadband speeds of course!

[595Heaven]

Blockbuster said:

Of course the answer you are going to get is to do things properly and bury at least two Cat 6 cables for resilience from your router to the outbuilding or pay for some OTT Ubiquity system.

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[Blockbuster]

I was using this set previously and getting around 27Mbps from it. No real complaints about it and I only moved to the mesh system to give better coverage in the top half of the house where the wife is now working from home, and also wanted to cover the patio.

Edited by Blockbuster on Monday 28th December 09:27

Edited by Blockbuster on Monday 28th December 09:27