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Old 05-05-2012, 16:01   #1
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Signal boosting??

I live in a shared house thats an old guest house(its the size of 1 and a half houses) and we've got 60MB and some of us have trouble getting WiFi and the last time we had a Virgin engineer to sort our problem even he said that the SuperHub we have is on a maximum setting for the Wifi.Has anyone had this problem before and what thes best way of sorting it??Will Virgin help us or is it one they will avoid and we have to sort it on our own!!
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Old 05-05-2012, 16:27   #2
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Re: Signal boosting??

The superhub has a weak wifi, despite Virgins claims otherwise. Also apparently the aerials point towards the rear, meaning the strongest signal is at the back of the superhub, so try rotating it to point the rear of it towards where you need the signal.

This may, or may not help, and it will also depend on the materials used to construct your home. Thick concrete walls will reduce the signal transmission, etc.

Henry will be along in a moment to tell you to put it in modem mode and use a proper router. Its certainly one thing you can try, if you don't mind running 2 devices, and buying an additional router.

Personally I would actually consider getting another router, but one that can be used as a repeater. That is, you place it somewhere where it can recieve the wifi signal, amplify it, and retransmit it.

Another solution worthy of consideration are homeplugs.
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Old 05-05-2012, 16:42   #3
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Re: Signal boosting??

I would personally suggest a second AP, not working as a repeater but simply connected via Ethernet.
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Re: Signal boosting??

That is also an option, however I was taking the "old house" into consideration, and thinking they might not be allowed to drill walls to run the ethernet cable.
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Re: Signal boosting??

I use a TP-Link TL-WA830RE in range extender mode. It works with the hub or with my belkin router.

I have it placed about 20 meters from the hub on a lower level at the back of the house and it works perfect giving me full 5 bar @ 300mbps to all of my wifi devices.

Without the extender my devices cannot connect to the hub at that side of my house.
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Re: Signal boosting??

Invest in a couple of Homeplug 'starter kits'

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B007DVIB46/
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Re: Signal boosting??

There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that the SH should be put into modem mode and you get yourself a decent router. RThe SH will never be wifi brilliant, none-the-least because it isn't dual-band wi-fi (it's switchable).

If you can do without Wi-Fi, then, as stated, Homeplugs are brilliant. But in any case, modem mode would give the SH less to do and keep it stable.
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Old 09-05-2012, 02:38   #8
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Re: Signal boosting??

You might look here.
http://www.box.co.uk/Tp-Link_Tp-Link...G_1116638.html
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