Wireless Routers - Noddy Question - replace BT hub
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We live in a 3 story house.
BT Home Hub (latest V2) sits on middle floor.
Wireless connections are a bit poor all round. Averages less than 50% connectivity, loads of drop outs, go slow's etc.
I would like to replace it with 1 router and 2 repeaters, so that I have a wireless connection point on each floor.
The BT V2 hub doesn't allow for repeaters.
Can anyone recommend a set of products that can do this and do BT make it difficult for you to use a non BT router.
Thanks
BT Home Hub (latest V2) sits on middle floor.
Wireless connections are a bit poor all round. Averages less than 50% connectivity, loads of drop outs, go slow's etc.
I would like to replace it with 1 router and 2 repeaters, so that I have a wireless connection point on each floor.
The BT V2 hub doesn't allow for repeaters.
Can anyone recommend a set of products that can do this and do BT make it difficult for you to use a non BT router.
Thanks
Is this a modern three storey house or an older property.
I replaced my BT Hub with a Netgear DGN2000 and I have great wireless all over my (modern) house and in the garden.
Putting a repeater on each floor isn't going to help that much, if the wireless is good enough to reach the repeater, it'll probably be good enough for the lan connection anyway.
Get down to PC World and grab one of these :
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/netgear-dgn2000-wire...
It's very easy to setup with BT.
If you don't get good wireless all over the house, then take it back. PC World never quibble about refunding.
I replaced my BT Hub with a Netgear DGN2000 and I have great wireless all over my (modern) house and in the garden.
Putting a repeater on each floor isn't going to help that much, if the wireless is good enough to reach the repeater, it'll probably be good enough for the lan connection anyway.
Get down to PC World and grab one of these :
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/netgear-dgn2000-wire...
It's very easy to setup with BT.
If you don't get good wireless all over the house, then take it back. PC World never quibble about refunding.
sgrimshaw said:
Putting a repeater on each floor isn't going to help that much, if the wireless is good enough to reach the repeater, it'll probably be good enough for the lan connection anyway.
I have to say that my repeater is at the edge of my wireless range - without it I can see the wireless but cannot connect, with it I have 100% strength. So it certainly makes a huge difference in my situation.sgrimshaw said:
Is this a modern three storey house or an older property.
I replaced my BT Hub with a Netgear DGN2000 and I have great wireless all over my (modern) house and in the garden.
Putting a repeater on each floor isn't going to help that much, if the wireless is good enough to reach the repeater, it'll probably be good enough for the lan connection anyway.
Get down to PC World and grab one of these :
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/netgear-dgn2000-wire...
It's very easy to setup with BT.
If you don't get good wireless all over the house, then take it back. PC World never quibble about refunding.
I have had good experience with Netgear, also you can add a couple of netgear access points that can act as repeaters (bridge is the technical term)I replaced my BT Hub with a Netgear DGN2000 and I have great wireless all over my (modern) house and in the garden.
Putting a repeater on each floor isn't going to help that much, if the wireless is good enough to reach the repeater, it'll probably be good enough for the lan connection anyway.
Get down to PC World and grab one of these :
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/netgear-dgn2000-wire...
It's very easy to setup with BT.
If you don't get good wireless all over the house, then take it back. PC World never quibble about refunding.
make sure whicher router/access point you choose supports WDS - wireless distribution system
although I would probably do it using powerline ethernet adapters - you can get them with built in access points so you just plug them in wherever you need wireless, and a master one plugged into the router itself
although I would probably do it using powerline ethernet adapters - you can get them with built in access points so you just plug them in wherever you need wireless, and a master one plugged into the router itself
Thanks peeps,
I'll try a new router then!
It's a modern house (8/9 years old)(built from paper-mache I think!)
I've also tried using the netplug's as well, as it's the only way I can get connectivity back upstairs reliably. i.e. thing that goes in the plug socket with a hard wire to router and hard wire back to PC.
But my PS3 on the ground floor has 58% connectivity and it sits in the room directly under the router... and I still can't get on the playstation network very often....
Arghhh...
I'll try a new router then!
It's a modern house (8/9 years old)(built from paper-mache I think!)
I've also tried using the netplug's as well, as it's the only way I can get connectivity back upstairs reliably. i.e. thing that goes in the plug socket with a hard wire to router and hard wire back to PC.
But my PS3 on the ground floor has 58% connectivity and it sits in the room directly under the router... and I still can't get on the playstation network very often....
Arghhh...
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