Boosting wifi in a large house

[Hobosapien]

That's an idea, I must see if mine reaches right to the bottom of the garden where my little pond is, though probably plenty of frog's porn in it already.

While there would be some satisfaction in re-using some old kit instead of having to buy yet more, I am so tempted to buy an outdoor wireless access point (prices seem to start under £50 and typical includes a power over ethernet capability so no separate power supply needed), to cover not only the garden but also across the road for the village pub beer garden, which currently doesn't have any wifi available.

Only a couple of walls would be in the way and the range of the kit (some quoted in the kilometres) seems adequate.

Could sell access to the locals and the ramblers that stop off on their way to traipsing across dartmoor, as a nice little earner.

[Support Monkey]

I used one of these in the office in my old house ,the office was a new extension on the side so the signal was poor getting through what wa the outside wall to the new room, never had a problem, wired 3 devices in my office straight into the back and never lost connection and it extended the wifi to that side of the house

there are probably newer versions now but this one worked for me

https://www.amazon.co.uk/NETGEAR-WN2...+wifi+extender

[BrilloPad]

At the moment we have gone with the tin foil solution. When twins are down for half term we will see how happy they are. If they are still not happy then I will try the extender.

Tin foil did not help much. I just bought a netgear wifi extender from maplin. Works like a dream.

Many thanks to all with their suggestions.

[Hobosapien]

Gave up trying to use an old router. Tried two but neither worked properly or had all the right specs (WPA2 security and 11.n/ac wireless speed) to make it worthwhile due to them being too out of date. Also probably have security flaws since fixed in more recent offerings.

So have ordered a BT wifi extender. There are several models (610/750/1200) that are relatively small and plug straight into a power socket, have too far/too close/ideal positioning indicators for optimum placement for repeating the wifi signal, and come with an ethernet socket so I can also use it to free up a powerline adaptor for connecting devices without wifi. Seems to tick all boxes.

Hopefully easy to set up (manual suggest so), though I have WPS turned off on the router (known security weakness) so won't be as plug and play as it could be.