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Am currently considering converting a room in the attic into an office/gaming room. Now the problem is that the router is in the lounge, which is on the ground floor and when I go into the kitchen which is in the basement the signal on the laptop is quite low. With the room I am wanting to use for my office being 2 floors away instead of 1 I am thinking that the wireless will not reach there.
So I am left thinking of a couple of things but as I haven't tried any of them before was wondering which would be the best solution.
1) Setup a wireless repeater with a spare bt router. Is this easy to do?
2) Use those 'thingys' that use your wiring circuit to send your broadband through it, i.e it plugs in by your router connected via ethernet, then plug it in the socket in the attic and connect again via ethernet. I am a little dubious as to how good these would be though, transfer rate etc.
Any other ideas without moving the original router or buying a big ariel for my pc.
Cheers
Stu
So I am left thinking of a couple of things but as I haven't tried any of them before was wondering which would be the best solution.
1) Setup a wireless repeater with a spare bt router. Is this easy to do?
2) Use those 'thingys' that use your wiring circuit to send your broadband through it, i.e it plugs in by your router connected via ethernet, then plug it in the socket in the attic and connect again via ethernet. I am a little dubious as to how good these would be though, transfer rate etc.
Any other ideas without moving the original router or buying a big ariel for my pc.
Cheers
Stu