Do you have BT infinity ?

No the conversion a few months off (Money) but will certainly run a cat cable.

Lee

yes to do we have BT Infinity

Lee

When you do run the cable - I can give you a supplier who offers good prices (and no commission to me).

Work out what you need and where. Then increase locations by 50%. At each location put in a double run and where you think you need two, run in four. My lounge has 12 outlets, master bedroom has six, downstairs cloakroom and en-suite/dressing room, two each!

A range extender works but isn't great.
The extender has to take everything that you do and then repeat it again wirelessly.
It results in the wireless overall throughput (real term speed) being halved.

So if you sat next to the homehub & connected to it you would get double the max speed of sitting next to the repeater & connecting to it. AND THIS IS AT BEST!

It could be that the repeater ends up even slower...

On BT infinity it makes a big difference because the repeater ends up being the restrictive factor as the BT infinity connections far faster than the repeater can go.

Would it work to extend the range? YES
Would I recommend doing it this way? Certainly not.

Edited by ukhardy07 (Wed 26-Dec-12 19:29:50)

Again thanks for all your knowledge and input. I think from your replies and couple of others Im going to stick with the HH3. The iPad and iPhone receive a signal but can be lost in the back room -the Apple Tv seem to work without an issue.

I just read very negative stuff about the HH3 having googled due to WiFi issue myself. It would appear that spending money on a new router isn't go to help me. For those of you in the know who wish to alter various setting I guess other routers offer more scope.

Lee

Thanks for taking the time to reply.

Everyone as be so articulate in their replies and not knocked me for what may appear to some of you a dumb question.

I have put in another post going to stick with the HH3 being other routers made say they offer better range but not always the case, but great if you wish to alter the settings etc.

Lee

One good reason is that BT lock HH3 right down. I want to set my own DNS resolvers. Also HH3 does not resolve boxes on the internal network, hence I get to hard code IP addresses.

Also HH3 is very unstable and needs a reboot at least once a fortnight.

Perhaps you have a faulty homehub.
My HomeHub 3 uptime is 182 days on the fibre service and it's running fine still. Never unplug it unless there's a powercut / something is happening with the phone line which might affect the profile.

It's a connection provided via work but for some reason they install the home service not the business one.

I have no complaints.

Yes the HH is locked down but for the average Joe DNS settings isn't a major issue and you can always configure these on each individual client (I believe but could be wrong).

I definitely do not reboot every 2 weeks. I don't reboot once every 3 months even.
The WiFi range on it is really decent too.

Edited by ukhardy07 (Sat 29-Dec-12 21:21:34)

Set the region to "Mexico" and this will increase the output power of the router, naughty I know.