jonnyboy
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Confirmed technophobe here so I am pleading with you to speak straightforwardly lol.
We're having a problem with wifi patchiness in our house.
To keep it brief its an old house with later additions. Very unusual construction which does not help at all.
See the picture I roughly drew:-
Basically I have cat 6 cabling to my study which follows a torturous route from the router location - this all works well - it comes into the study through the loft space via a services cupboard that also (now) houses the sky box etc (which I have boosted about the house via an hdmi matrix). Actually there are two cat 6's from the router passing through that cupboard - one to the study, and one to the PS4 in the room next to it.
So I have internet in that cupboard if you know what I mean.
In that cupboard we also have the sky on demand box.
Previous to some recent works we sort of had decent signal - we were using a "Sky router repeater" thing that we got from them, placed in the centre of the dead space - this would pick up the faint router signal and boost it.
We've now done some works near the router which have further blocked transmission - both the works done, and the router location are fixed ie we cannot move/change/undo etc.
Definitely no cables displaced or whatever.
So - have spent the last two weeks moving the little Sky repeater thing to try and grab a good router signal to repeat into the dead zone. No good. In addition, the (newly moved) On demand box in the services cupboard shows it is getting a wifi signal from the router yet is as temperamental as a temperamental thing.
I need to resolve this ASAP as it is doing our head in.
To reiterate - I can't move the original router. I can't knock down the cupboards/walls near it (lol). Can't do Powerline type system due to their being three different ring mains on two separate consumer units.
What I am hoping I can achieve but don't know how - so this is said in my own simplistic way - my ideal solution would be a 2nd router in the services cupboard - fed by the existing cat 6 cable that runs through there to the study - which supplies good wifi in the dead zone - and that I can whack a cat 6 into the back of to feed the study pc etc.
Help !!!!!!
And thanks in advance.
Confirmed technophobe here so I am pleading with you to speak straightforwardly lol.
We're having a problem with wifi patchiness in our house.
To keep it brief its an old house with later additions. Very unusual construction which does not help at all.
See the picture I roughly drew:-
Basically I have cat 6 cabling to my study which follows a torturous route from the router location - this all works well - it comes into the study through the loft space via a services cupboard that also (now) houses the sky box etc (which I have boosted about the house via an hdmi matrix). Actually there are two cat 6's from the router passing through that cupboard - one to the study, and one to the PS4 in the room next to it.
So I have internet in that cupboard if you know what I mean.
In that cupboard we also have the sky on demand box.
Previous to some recent works we sort of had decent signal - we were using a "Sky router repeater" thing that we got from them, placed in the centre of the dead space - this would pick up the faint router signal and boost it.
We've now done some works near the router which have further blocked transmission - both the works done, and the router location are fixed ie we cannot move/change/undo etc.
Definitely no cables displaced or whatever.
So - have spent the last two weeks moving the little Sky repeater thing to try and grab a good router signal to repeat into the dead zone. No good. In addition, the (newly moved) On demand box in the services cupboard shows it is getting a wifi signal from the router yet is as temperamental as a temperamental thing.
I need to resolve this ASAP as it is doing our head in.
To reiterate - I can't move the original router. I can't knock down the cupboards/walls near it (lol). Can't do Powerline type system due to their being three different ring mains on two separate consumer units.
What I am hoping I can achieve but don't know how - so this is said in my own simplistic way - my ideal solution would be a 2nd router in the services cupboard - fed by the existing cat 6 cable that runs through there to the study - which supplies good wifi in the dead zone - and that I can whack a cat 6 into the back of to feed the study pc etc.
Help !!!!!!
And thanks in advance.
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