topic Re: Recommend booster/extender Full Fibre Hub 2 in My Router

Recommend booster/extender Full Fibre Hub 2

thecooperfamily — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 13:21:30 GMT

Hi
I’m looking for a recommendation to boost the WiFi. We have full fibre 500MB Hub 2.
The house has a basement annexe and the signal is not strong down there.
Can anyone recommend a decent WiFi extender that is compatible with what we have. I am not technical so please keep the answers simple

Re: Recommend booster/extender Full Fibre Hub 2

bmc — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 13:28:22 GMT

@thecooperfamily

Ay chance of running an ethernet cable, either internally or external? Not the cheapest option but is future proof and gives a good starting point for internet in the basement.

Brian

Re: Recommend booster/extender Full Fibre Hub 2

thecooperfamily — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 14:08:39 GMT

Yes ultimately but it would have to be external so just exploring a cheaper option as an interim measure

Re: Recommend booster/extender Full Fibre Hub 2

Baldrick1 — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 14:14:39 GMT

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Thread moved from Full Fibre to My Router

Re: Recommend booster/extender Full Fibre Hub 2

MisterW — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 14:24:35 GMT

@thecooperfamily are the mains sockets, in the basement and where the router is plugged in, on the same electrical circuit ?

If so , this https://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-Link-Passthrough-Powerline-Configuration-TL-WPA7617/dp/B08QSK84JL might work. Should be capable of up to around 150-200Mb if on the same circuit, dropping to around 30-50Mb if on different circuits.

Re: Recommend booster/extender Full Fibre Hub 2

thecooperfamily — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 14:36:47 GMT

The property is new to me and is wired strangely so I’m not sure at present. But it is possible

Re: Recommend booster/extender Full Fibre Hub 2

MisterW — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 14:47:01 GMT

The consumer unit should have labels on the circuit MCB's. It should also have one ( or maybe two ) RCD's each handing a group of circuits. If the basement circuit and where the router is are in different RCD groups, then that's what really reduces the powerline speed.

Re: Recommend booster/extender Full Fibre Hub 2

thecooperfamily — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 14:53:51 GMT

Thanks. I’ll need to take a closer look. There are two fuse boxes in different rooms both partially serve the annexe so so it would take a bit of investigating
Maybe I’ll just order the extender and take my chances

Re: Recommend booster/extender Full Fibre Hub 2

Baldrick1 — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 16:26:43 GMT

@thecooperfamily

There's a bit of blurb in this post re idenifying which circuits are best for powerline performance. https://community.plus.net/t5/Tech-Help-Software-Hardware-etc/Powerline-Unit-Performance/m-p/1607450#M85015