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[zirk]

A fair few peeps ask on here about improving the WiFi Coverage, so thought this may help someone out for £13.

A Closing Down Sale Item. so reduced to clear, cant vouch for it personally but cheap enough price wise.

https://www.maplin.co.uk/search/?text=Maplin+WN529A3-B+AC1200+Dual+Band+Wireless+Cable+Router

[Bigron]

I am currently using a Sky hub as part of my satellite deal. Would that router help and/or be compatible?

Thanks,
Ron.

[Rods2]

Good call and I've taken a risk at that price and have 2 on order, one to boost the signal in my back garden so I can sit on the patio working in the summer using my laptop with a 2nd screen and one for the MIL/SIL in Ukraine where their sprawling bungalow has solid brick walls and they can only get a signal in part of the house. The fact that the room it will be located in will be adjacent to their patio, so I can sit outside in the summer sun with my laptop on my summer travels will be entirely coincidental.

[Rods2]

I am currently using a Sky hub as part of my satellite deal. Would that router help and/or be compatible?

Thanks,
Ron.

Shouldn't be a problem where the receiver will need to be set to the same channel as your Sky router and the transmitter to a different channel. The repeater will need to be close enough to get a resonable signal or you will need to run a cable.

I had to setup multiple cable linked repeaters when I did several hotel installations where the buildings were concrete shells that really hammered the wifi signals.

[Shackeng]

A fair few peeps ask on here about improving the WiFi Coverage, so thought this may help someone out for £13.

A Closing Down Sale Item. so reduced to clear, cant vouch for it personally but cheap enough price wise.

https://www.maplin.co.uk/search/?text=Maplin+WN529A3-B+AC1200+Dual+Band+Wireless+Cable+Router

For us techno numptys, how would I use this? In place of an existing router? or in addition to it in another room to extend coverage?

[Bigron]

That was about to be my follow-up question to Rods2, Mr. S, because I wasn't sure whether to use both together or just the Maplins one?

Ron.

[Rods2]

You use it remotely from the main router where you have a poor signal. With a cable connection you connect it to the main router and select a free IP address within your local network subnet, this normally defaults to 192.168.0.nnn. Lookup on your PC your internet gateway IP as the first 3 number as this will give you the local network range. Iirc on the Zyxel ones I used you also had to set a matching password to the Zyxel base unit and the SSID. The Zyxel system had a base unit and printer which provided the customer with login credentials which once you were logged onto seamlessly used the nearest access point. My memory is a bit sketchy on this as it was 10+ years ago when I installed these networks. You will probably need a crossover network cable (unless one is provided) and the connect your PC to the router type the default router admin ip address in your browser and use the default account name and password to configure.

You then set this router to a different wifi channel to the one you use on your main router. If there are quite a few wifi connections around you set it to a channel number that will interfere the most with your neighbours wifi that will cause you the least interference.

Now I assuming with the 4 aerials that the router can act as a receiver as well as a transmitter. The repeaters I used had this function but at the cost of throughput so I never used it.

When I get the units through I will read the distructions and set one of them up so I can talk through anybody having problems.

[TheBoy]

Never use this as a pure extender (ie, it receives the signal over wifi, and re-sends it). *ALL* wifi extenders, without exception are shite, and will 'dangle berries' up your throughput, even when not using the bloody thing.

If used via cable as an additional wifi access point, it should be fine.

Use the same SSID/key. If your local 2.4Ghz wifi allows it, use it on a different prime channel to your router, but if its too busy in your area, put it on the same channel.  Under no circumstances (unless you really know what you are doing) but it on a non prime channel (sometimes incorrectly called overlapping channels).  5Ghz should have enough free channels.

[Kevin Wood]

.. and don't sit on it by mistake.

[Shackeng]

You use it remotely from the main router where you have a poor signal. With a cable connection you connect it to the main router and select a free IP address within your local network subnet, this normally defaults to 192.168.0.nnn. Lookup on your PC your internet gateway IP as the first 3 number as this will give you the local network range. Iirc on the Zyxel ones I used you also had to set a matching password to the Zyxel base unit and the SSID. The Zyxel system had a base unit and printer which provided the customer with login credentials which once you were logged onto seamlessly used the nearest access point. My memory is a bit sketchy on this as it was 10+ years ago when I installed these networks. You will probably need a crossover network cable (unless one is provided) and the connect your PC to the router type the default router admin ip address in your browser and use the default account name and password to configure.



You then set this router to a different wifi channel to the one you use on your main router. If there are quite a few wifi connections around you set it to a channel number that will interfere the most with your neighbours wifi that will cause you the least interference.

Now I assuming with the 4 aerials that the router can act as a receiver as well as a transmitter. The repeaters I used had this function but at the cost of throughput so I never used it.

When I get the units through I will read the distructions and set one of them up so I can talk through anybody having problems.

That's easy for you to say Chris, you may have missed the beginning of my question ref techno numpty.

[Shackeng]

I've ordered one anyway, in the hope you lot will tell me how to use it.

[Bigron]

Me too! 

Ron.

[Shackeng]

Right, mine's arrived. What do I do with it?

[Bigron]

So has mine, so I have the same question!

Ron.

[Shackeng]

So has mine, so I have the same question!

Ron.

We need a petition Ron.