Extending Wireless Area

[monkey5]

after some advice please, i have no idea about this sort of thing,

info for setup at the minute, customer has bt hub which is feeding 2 of the plug in (devlo i think) recievers which send a wireless signal out within a x radius of them. theyve just bought the property at the front of theres and will probably some sort of holiday/weekend home so would like a wireless signal in there from there hub.  delvo wont reach and obviously the wiring is seperate so wont work thru that.  i can get a cat 5 cable from there hub to the new property (about 50m away) but would it just be a case of fitting a router in the new property to make it wireless in there?

hope that make sense.

they also have there works up the top of the garden, they have a devlo as far as possible off there wiring and can get a signal but very week, so is there extenders of some sort that you would recommend.

cheers wayne

 

[kme]

Cat 5 ( external grade) from the router to the new property, then one ( or more) access points installed - job done.

Access points go from:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-Link-TL-WA901ND-Advanced-300Mbps-Wireless/dp/B002YETVXC/ref=sr_1_7?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1402005786&sr=1-7

to

https://meraki.cisco.com/products/wireless/mr66

I`d go for a PoE unit, so you don`t have to plug it into the mains........

I`ve not used the amazon unit - but the Meraki kit is the dogs danglies, to be honest.

 

[OnOff]

I have two BT Home Hub 3's. One is my original that sits by the main BT socket. My father upgraded to a Home Hub 4 and I now use his old Home Hub 3 as a range extender. Simply connected the two together with Cat-5 so the other one sits the other side of the house in the study. Property is detached with up to 15" solid walls. Works a treat as a wireless extender plus the option of using the hard wired ports in the back too. 

I followed the first link here:

https://community.bt.com/t5/Other-Broadband-Queries/BT-Home-Hub-3-as-a-repater/td-p/592010

One hub is a 3A and the other a 3B. Have seen instructions though for using combos of Home Hub 3 and 4's too.

 

[Steve3948]

These are also top notch.

http://www.ubnt.com/

Disable the internal wireless on the router plug these into a port and let them do the work.