Extending wi-fi

My BT Home Hub 3 running on Infinity is downstairs in my study. The wi-fi
from that reaches all parts of the house using my DELL laptop. I take a
feed up to my TV in the drawing room on the first floor using Home Plugs and
that works well - HD transfers perfectly.

Then I bought an iPad which depends on wi-fi but cannot pick up the router
in the front part of the house and certainly not upstairs.

So I would like something to plug into a 13A socket to pick up the Home Plug
signal and broadcast that as wi-fi so I can use the iPad while watching TV.
BT sell a kit that does that for £89 - but people here may know of a better
answer. I may lay in a Cat 5 cable if it comes to that but before I start
burrowing under floors, I would welcome advice.

Geoff

In message , Geoff Pearson
writes
My BT Home Hub 3 running on Infinity is downstairs in my study. The
wi-fi from that reaches all parts of the house using my DELL laptop. I
take a feed up to my TV in the drawing room on the first floor using
Home Plugs and that works well - HD transfers perfectly.

Then I bought an iPad which depends on wi-fi but cannot pick up the
router in the front part of the house and certainly not upstairs.

So I would like something to plug into a 13A socket to pick up the Home
Plug signal and broadcast that as wi-fi so I can use the iPad while
watching TV. BT sell a kit that does that for £89 - but people here may
know of a better answer. I may lay in a Cat 5 cable if it comes to
that but before I start burrowing under floors, I would welcome advice.

Those extender repeater things seem to work OK (and don't require ant
wiring).
https://www.google.co.uk/#q=wifi+extender
[Anything which uses the mains wiring to transmit data is an abomination
to the users of the RF spectrum, and should be avoided at all costs.]
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Ian

On Wed, 1 Jan 2014 15:22:34 UTC, "Geoff Pearson"
wrote:

My BT Home Hub 3 running on Infinity is downstairs in my study. The wi-fi
from that reaches all parts of the house using my DELL laptop. I take a
feed up to my TV in the drawing room on the first floor using Home Plugs and
that works well - HD transfers perfectly.

Then I bought an iPad which depends on wi-fi but cannot pick up the router
in the front part of the house and certainly not upstairs.

So I would like something to plug into a 13A socket to pick up the Home Plug
signal and broadcast that as wi-fi so I can use the iPad while watching TV.
BT sell a kit that does that for œ89 - but people here may know of a better
answer. I may lay in a Cat 5 cable if it comes to that but before I start
burrowing under floors, I would welcome advice.

Develo have a model that does just that - Don't know how compatable it
is with other home plugs though


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Dave Saville

"Ian Jackson" wrote
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In message , Geoff
Pearson writes
My BT Home Hub 3 running on Infinity is downstairs in my
study. The wi-fi from that reaches all parts of the house
using my DELL laptop. I take a feed up to my TV in the
drawing room on the first floor using Home Plugs and that
works well - HD transfers perfectly.

Then I bought an iPad which depends on wi-fi but cannot
pick up the router in the front part of the house and
certainly not upstairs.

So I would like something to plug into a 13A socket to
pick up the Home Plug signal and broadcast that as wi-fi
so I can use the iPad while watching TV. BT sell a kit
that does that for £89 - but people here may know of a
better answer. I may lay in a Cat 5 cable if it comes to
that but before I start burrowing under floors, I would
welcome advice.

Those extender repeater things seem to work OK (and don't
require ant wiring).
https://www.google.co.uk/#q=wifi+extender
[Anything which uses the mains wiring to transmit data is
an abomination to the users of the RF spectrum, and should
be avoided at all costs.]



Better still, if you have an old wi-fi router connect up to
it and see if its software offers a repeat facility which
will do the same thing. Alternatively. if you can get a CAT5
to a suitable place some routers can be configured as access
points which will also do the job.

Having said all that iPads are not notably deaf so it would
be worth checking (if you can) that the unit is not loosing
connection as you move around and trying to log on to
someone elses router. It is also possible that your router
is deaf. You could try a fixed IP behind the NAT and see if
it will then hold on?


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Woody

harrogate three at ntlworld dot com

On 01/01/2014 15:22, Geoff Pearson wrote:
My BT Home Hub 3 running on Infinity is downstairs in my study. The
wi-fi from that reaches all parts of the house using my DELL laptop. I
take a feed up to my TV in the drawing room on the first floor using
Home Plugs and that works well - HD transfers perfectly.

Then I bought an iPad which depends on wi-fi but cannot pick up the
router in the front part of the house and certainly not upstairs.

So I would like something to plug into a 13A socket to pick up the Home
Plug signal and broadcast that as wi-fi so I can use the iPad while
watching TV. BT sell a kit that does that for £89 - but people here may
know of a better answer. I may lay in a Cat 5 cable if it comes to that
but before I start burrowing under floors, I would welcome advice.

Geoff

Use a spare router with DHCP disabled. Make sure that the local IP
address does not conflict with that of your Home Hub. - I have a
collection of 'free' routers.


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Michael Chare

On 01/01/2014 16:21, Dave Saville wrote:
On Wed, 1 Jan 2014 15:22:34 UTC, "Geoff Pearson"
wrote:

My BT Home Hub 3 running on Infinity is downstairs in my study. The wi-fi
from that reaches all parts of the house using my DELL laptop. I take a
feed up to my TV in the drawing room on the first floor using Home Plugs and
that works well - HD transfers perfectly.

Then I bought an iPad which depends on wi-fi but cannot pick up the router
in the front part of the house and certainly not upstairs.

So I would like something to plug into a 13A socket to pick up the Home Plug
signal and broadcast that as wi-fi so I can use the iPad while watching TV.
BT sell a kit that does that for œ89 - but people here may know of a better
answer. I may lay in a Cat 5 cable if it comes to that but before I start
burrowing under floors, I would welcome advice.

Develo have a model that does just that - Don't know how compatable it
is with other home plugs though


+1

I've got a set of these - which work pretty well:
http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/devolo-dla...er-plugs-n51qg

Each of the wireless extender plugs acts as a hot-spot, and also has an
ethernet socket which you can use for connecting to another wired
device. You can add further wireless extenders, and configure them all
with the same SSID and passphrase - so that you can use wireless devices
seamlessly from room to room.

Since you've already got powerline adapters, you can buy just one Devolo
wireless extender - which may well work with your existing kit. [Visit
the Devolo site for compatibility information].
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Ian Jackson wrote:

[Anything which uses the mains wiring to transmit data is an abomination
to the users of the RF spectrum, and should be avoided at all costs.]

The OP might not care about the radio ham next door. In fact he might
regard him as an abomination to be avoided at all costs.

Bill

In message , Bill Wright
writes
Ian Jackson wrote:

[Anything which uses the mains wiring to transmit data is an
abomination to the users of the RF spectrum, and should be avoided at
all costs.]

The OP might not care about the radio ham next door. In fact he might
regard him as an abomination to be avoided at all costs.

If God had intended man to transmit high-speed data over the mains, he
would have made man decide that it was a good idea for the mains to be
balanced, and to be wired using CAT5 cable.
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Ian

That would be some thick cat5e cable carrying up to 32A of current on up to eight conductors.....

:-)

And that's before even thinking about PoE......

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That would be some thick cat5e cable carrying up to 32A of current on
up to eight conductors.....

:-)

And that's before even thinking about PoE......

I can't see what your problem is.
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Ian