Wifi Extenders for the home.

[BikerPa]

lol . .

yeh, i was thinking of loading up a few - Ubiquiti UniFi UAP AC Pro Indoor / Outdoor Access Point (UAP-AC-PRO)

may be a directional link direct to the van?

I use 2 of the Ubiquiti ACPro’s at home, they are great but need direct Cat/5/6 Ethernet really & PoE switch. PoE injectors are a PIA

 

[Pauly]

We use quite a bit of the unifi stuff and I think it’s great for the price point
I actually have a power line adapter from router to loft that feeds a couple unifi APs and they are solid, running over a year now and been power cycled once or twice in that time !
I think AC lites are about the best bang for buck now

 

[Steve Hales]

I have 2 unifi nanoHD APs at home, one in the hall and one upstairs. Poe switch in the loft also supplying IP cameras and a USG and Poe switch in the cloak cupboard. I do have a Netgear switch in the garage fed via Netgear powerline plugs which has been good as gold for the last two years.

 

[Insert Coin]

For consumer grade people who don’t want weapons grade WiFi then TP Link P9’s are hard to beat, 3 year warranty too.

 

[Phil_G]

But the garage is in another line

I actually have a power line adapter from router to loft

If the garage has its own RCD (as it should) then AC powerline extenders might not work, or will work at a reduced performance...

 

[Irvine101]

Have you considered a Mesh system instead. These have the advantage that each individual unit is part of one single wireless system sharing one SSID and password. One issue with extenders etc is that you have to disconnect from one unit and reconnect to the next when moving around the house. You don't get this issue with MESH systems.

They are generally more expensive but in my opinion are far better.

 

[BikerPa]

Have you considered a Mesh system instead. These have the advantage that each individual unit is part of one single wireless system sharing one SSID and password. One issue with extenders etc is that you have to disconnect from one unit and reconnect to the next when moving around the house. You don't get this issue with MESH systems.

They are generally more expensive but in my opinion are far better.

Like the BT whole home WiFi system & add on repeater things which is relatively cheap & plug & play MESH IIRC. As is the Google one but would require their router not BTs I think also IIRC

The Ubiquiti APs do MESH SSIDs seamlessly but really require Ethernet to the router/switch

 

[Phil_G]

Like the BT whole home WiFi system & add on repeater things which is relatively cheap & plug & play MESH IIRC.

...and they're free (up to 5 units IIRC) to BT broadband customers

 

[WinFreak]

We’ve got the BT wholehome mesh with 3 discs on our Virgin fibre and it works a treat, I’ve got 110mbps next to the modem and 110mbps right at the back of the garden, there’s no loss anywhere in the house either

 

[Mike Dean]

If the garage has its own RCD (as it should) then AC powerline extenders might not work, or will work at a reduced performance...

It doesn’t work at all.

I think I will just run a cat from under the stairs all the way out the house and into the garage and install a router to get WiFi. I guess I just need to make sure it supports access point mode, is gigabit and supports at least 5ghz?

 

[Phil_G]

Just install any old router as a bridge, keep it layer 2, BT router handles dhcp, dns etc