Internet booster

spkennyuk

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The BT mesh offering is easy to set up. Easy to add to if needed and comes with an app to help you get the best coverage. I paid £80 for a bundle of three units.

The only issue i have found is that in a thick stone building you may need more units than you think.

Also remember that one unit connects directly to your router / home hub so you only get 2 other units to place from a tripple pack.
 

PaulCambio

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There have been so many questions like this on the UK Garden Shed, Pubs and Nightclubs UK FB page I’m on to the point of insanity!! The only real way to guarantee decent Wi-fi is by running a Cat 6 cable from your router to an access point in the out building.

I used a BT hub 5 Reconfigured and have perfect Wi-fi in my garden pub!
 
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Simon1963

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Further to my post at the beginning of this thread I ran a cat 6 cable from the router in the house into our garden room (30m). Haven’t added anything for WiFi yet as only need it for a laptop at the minute but it works great.
 

mjheathcote

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The BT mesh offering is easy to set up. Easy to add to if needed and comes with an app to help you get the best coverage. I paid £80 for a bundle of three units.

The only issue i have found is that in a thick stone building you may need more units than you think.

Also remember that one unit connects directly to your router / home hub so you only get 2 other units to place from a tripple pack.

I have a couple of BT discs added to the main BT home hub.
Works okay but when I go through the app to see what is connected to what it's totally illogical. You would think that the furthest away would be connected to the nearest disc, but this isn't always the case, appears totally random!
 

CatmanV2

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I have a couple of BT discs added to the main BT home hub.
Works okay but when I go through the app to see what is connected to what it's totally illogical. You would think that the furthest away would be connected to the nearest disc, but this isn't always the case, appears totally random!

Nah, not random, but I know what you mean. There's algorithms (a word used by programmers when they don't want to explain what they did) on the devices that decide when to associate and disassociate. If you turn wifi on a device off and back on again it will probably associate with the nearest / lowest loaded node.

C
 

rs48635

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We had our whole house and barn (across courtyard) professionally networked (Ubiquiti) so we have wifi in every room, hardwired.

Cost just over £1k.

No cables showing. Worth every penny.

Some of our walls are getting on for 2 feet thick (C16th house).

Works a treat.
Will try and remember this when we move house, "this summer".
 

2b1ask1

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Added a rather expensive (seemed at the time) Mesh network and turned the WiFi off on the Virgin router so it is just in modem mode. Not a single drop out for anyone since and as it is state of the art the speed is only limited by Virgin Media at around 380mbs!!! I still get connection in the shop over the road :D

Cost was about £370. Three units around the house.

Never had WiFi in the garage before and that is 40m from the house and two brick walls!
 

CatmanV2

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That's good wifi speed. I don't get that on my gear but it's plenty plenty fast enough. Well done

C
 

2b1ask1

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That's good wifi speed. I don't get that on my gear but it's plenty plenty fast enough. Well done

C

it is a 5gHz signal and I believe it also has a 2.4 simultaneous. Bit the WiFi is as I understand it a 1gb/s capable! I didn’t get too involved beyond paying for it. I struggle to keep abreast of developments in computing these days. Left it to the next generation who have no fear of such things.
 

midlifecrisis

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guys, have you seen these little beauties.

Not sure how they work, but apprently they do.

 

montravia

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Being very rural, we're very humbly grateful that we have fibre internet feed. As they laid the infrastructure we're stuck with them, not the cheapest, but as a supplier to rural communities, they're wonderfully fabulously helpful.
Installed 4 years years ago, the 'modem'/router was already obsolescent, and today they called to ask what they could do to improve their service.
So, I've been offered 100Mbytes/s (not Mbits/s) connection speed, no cap, together with Linksys Velop node router, which offers mesh.

I'd be very grateful for others' experience on their effectiveness, and the supplier was open that they're sometimes compromised by building structure.
Cottage isn't big, 3 bed, two floors, and workshop 20 yards down the garden. Construction is traditional Cotswold stone (external, with solid internal walls.

I know that I'd have to supplement the single router with other Velop access points/beacons, but is it worth it?
I currently use TPLink Powerline for main distribution and wifi points. Some can be very iffy, and some IP addresses on the network are difficult to access probably because they're on a different ring circuit.

These Velos already have 2 ethernet connections, one will be fed by the 'modem', and could probably still use the second for the PowerLine links.

What experience.

Robin
 

Saigon

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Still the coolest name for a piece of tech kit

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The thread title is internet booster, haven’t found anything yet that actually boosts my internet. What you have is basically what you have got. May extend it a bit further, but not boosted to the extent they advertise. When extended it drops out, but what do you expect, what you have from your provider is what you have got, if you are lucky! Or maybe just me.
 

CatmanV2

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The thread title is internet booster, haven’t found anything yet that actually boosts my internet. What you have is basically what you have got. May extend it a bit further, but not boosted to the extent they advertise. When extended it drops out, but what do you expect, what you have from your provider is what you have got, if you are lucky! Or maybe just me.

Well it should, perhaps be 'wireless booster'

Good wifi can be extended without drop outs. This is what mesh achieves (and other similar systems)

However your speed on wifi cannot exceed your maximum bandwidth to the router.

C
 

2b1ask1

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I invested in a mesh system earlier this year and I am super happy with it, many times improved and never drops out even down the garden or even at the shops around the corner!

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