How do extend WiFi signal out to my garden?
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How do extend WiFi signal out to my garden?
How's best to get a WiFi out in my garden.
I already have a BT Smart Hub thats spoze to have best wifi coverage, but I can't even sit outside my back door and get a decent signal... let along at the top of my garden.
How do you get a signal to go further?
cheers
I already have a BT Smart Hub thats spoze to have best wifi coverage, but I can't even sit outside my back door and get a decent signal... let along at the top of my garden.
How do you get a signal to go further?
cheers
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I've got bt fibre and tried a bt booster for the same reason but I ended up sending it back. Never worked, tried resetting etc but still didn't work, gave up in the end.
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it will have, are you thinking run a Ethernet cable from the Home Smart Hub and up to the summerhouse?
I read about this, but didn't understand it lol
http://www.broadbandbuyer.com/featur...garden-office/
Last edited by salsa-king; 01 March 2017 at 10:48 PM.
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what do you mean powerline?
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Phil, get THIS KIT. Plug the little one in near your router and one of the WiFi ones in the shed. You can set it to clone your Wifi settings. Put another by the back door.
I have a house with two stone buildings 30m away and I have one in each - works perfectly and seamlessly.
I have a house with two stone buildings 30m away and I have one in each - works perfectly and seamlessly.
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Phil, get THIS KIT. Plug the little one in near your router and one of the WiFi ones in the shed. You can set it to clone your Wifi settings. Put another by the back door.
I have a house with two stone buildings 30m away and I have one in each - works perfectly and seamlessly.
I have a house with two stone buildings 30m away and I have one in each - works perfectly and seamlessly.
Is it boosting the Wi-Fi between the plugged in adaptors?
Without sounding stupid... Does it matter of the socket in the summer house isn't off the ring main of the house.
As the summer house power comes in from the garage which has it's own fuse board. Of course the power to the garage does come from the main feed to the house.
Does that make sense?
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^^^ that's what I need. thanks
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I've got the same TP-link kit as Puff, and use it to get Wifi in the log cabin / office + garage. It's an excellent bit of kit once it's set up (I've got two more power plug adaptors that don't do wifi for my Raspberry PIs etc).
The only thing I'd say is try to set it up with a different encryption key than what it comes with as standard, as I'm not sure how far "downstream" the signals leak in the electricity network. Reasonably easy to do with the provided software.
The only thing I'd say is try to set it up with a different encryption key than what it comes with as standard, as I'm not sure how far "downstream" the signals leak in the electricity network. Reasonably easy to do with the provided software.
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so the PLUG-IN in your Log Cabin.. is that using the power from the plug to work, or getting a signal through the power cable.... or is it picking up on the WiFi signal being sent from the other PLUG-IN in the house (which gets its signal from the Main Plug-IN wired to the router?)
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Phil, get THIS KIT. Plug the little one in near your router and one of the WiFi ones in the shed. You can set it to clone your Wifi settings. Put another by the back door.
I have a house with two stone buildings 30m away and I have one in each - works perfectly and seamlessly.
I have a house with two stone buildings 30m away and I have one in each - works perfectly and seamlessly.
http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computi...27162-pdt.html
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Off to town now.
How far will the WiFi signal reach using the plugs?... Without using the faster wired Ethernet connection?
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So I have the following setup:
Close to the Internet router:
1 x Powerline adaptor (the smaller of the two types, which doesn't do wifi) connected to a socket close to my Virgin Media router. I have a cable connected from the router to the powerline adaptor (a normal network cable).
This adaptor does not extend the wifi as such, it just means that my power cables also now carry the network signal (for other power line adaptors to pick up).
In the log cabin:
1 x Powerline adaptor with Wifi. This is plugged in to the mains power, and serves wifi. It also has a network port, which I've connected to a switch, but that's non-important for your use case.
I also have a further 2x non wifi powerline adaptors scattered around the house for various purposes (I'm a bit of a nerd, sorry...).
The powerline kit is supposed to support auto pairing to wifi etc, but I never got this working, so I used a browser to connect to the web interface of the wifi extender and set the network name and password to exactly the same as I have on my internet router. This was moderately tricky - I had to:
1. Set my laptop to NOT use dhcp on the ethernet connection (this is the wired connection, basically)
2. Configure the ethernet connection to use:
IP address: 192.168.1.5
Network mask: 255.255.255.0
No default gateway
3. Once you've set your network up like that, open a browser and surf to http://192.168.1.1 (I seem to recall it was this address, but it will say on the box or wifi extender).
4. In the web interface, configure the network SSID (name) and password. The admin password for the wifi extender is printed on the actual dongle itself, but it's on the power socket side, so write this down before plugging it in.
I think after this, it should work. I should also say that it's more than 2 years since I set this up, and my memory is slightly hazy. The extender might already have a wifi network configured, and you might be able to connect to that to set the network name and SSID, for example, without having to mess around with the ethernet cable (steps 1 + 2 above), but I can't remember for sure.
Close to the Internet router:
1 x Powerline adaptor (the smaller of the two types, which doesn't do wifi) connected to a socket close to my Virgin Media router. I have a cable connected from the router to the powerline adaptor (a normal network cable).
This adaptor does not extend the wifi as such, it just means that my power cables also now carry the network signal (for other power line adaptors to pick up).
In the log cabin:
1 x Powerline adaptor with Wifi. This is plugged in to the mains power, and serves wifi. It also has a network port, which I've connected to a switch, but that's non-important for your use case.
I also have a further 2x non wifi powerline adaptors scattered around the house for various purposes (I'm a bit of a nerd, sorry...).
The powerline kit is supposed to support auto pairing to wifi etc, but I never got this working, so I used a browser to connect to the web interface of the wifi extender and set the network name and password to exactly the same as I have on my internet router. This was moderately tricky - I had to:
1. Set my laptop to NOT use dhcp on the ethernet connection (this is the wired connection, basically)
2. Configure the ethernet connection to use:
IP address: 192.168.1.5
Network mask: 255.255.255.0
No default gateway
3. Once you've set your network up like that, open a browser and surf to http://192.168.1.1 (I seem to recall it was this address, but it will say on the box or wifi extender).
4. In the web interface, configure the network SSID (name) and password. The admin password for the wifi extender is printed on the actual dongle itself, but it's on the power socket side, so write this down before plugging it in.
I think after this, it should work. I should also say that it's more than 2 years since I set this up, and my memory is slightly hazy. The extender might already have a wifi network configured, and you might be able to connect to that to set the network name and SSID, for example, without having to mess around with the ethernet cable (steps 1 + 2 above), but I can't remember for sure.