I had one room where I couldn't get wifi and bought a TP-Link wireless extender that is working will with the BT hub. BT also do them but they are much more expensive. Many other makes on the market.

The router I�m using easily covers the full home with Wi-Fi since the home has wafer thin walls like most new builds do. We can sometimes have as many as 50 Wi-Fi clients connected simultaneously if friends/family are over along with their gadgets. Using a tri-band router helps to manage the load but I would be more than happy to use a Wi-Fi mesh system or additional APs if a single router was insufficient.

Edited by deleted (Thu 14-Nov-19 13:10:47)

In reply to a post by ian72:

I had one room where I couldn't get wifi and bought a TP-Link wireless extender that is working will with the BT hub. BT also do them but they are much more expensive. Many other makes on the market.

Yep, but they are not helpful if you need a long range link with special antennae or anything, or, as in my current case, it needs to be a different network. Fine just to fill in a dead spot in the house though (not withstanding the loss of bandwidth if it is of the wifi rebroadcasting type, and if it is of the powerline type then all of the previous discussion applies). A mesh network may be a better solution and they are becoming more widely available now as just mentioned.

Edited by deleted (Thu 14-Nov-19 13:22:45)

You mean like the BT Wholehome Wi-Fi kit

https://amzn.to/32I17Zr £99.99 for 3 of the mini disks, AC1200 version. Uses an app on phone/tablet to get it all up.

The Netgear Orbi is another way of doing this, but costs a lot more.

One thing to note about the BT "mini's" is that they do not support a wired back haul which their bigger brothers do.

Not criticising them at all, however it's something that they don't make particularly clear on most of the literature about this model.

Those requirements are pretty different than the simple solution you were looking for in the post I responded to. For most home users a mesh wifi would be more than sufficient for their needs. I went TP-Link because it was just one room that needed additional signal and because the BT and other versions are quite expensive. But, if TP-Link hadn't worked I would have looked to other options.

Seems odd to have an Ethernet port then

In reply to a post by andyhurley:

In my experience the use between two rings on a the same consumer unit makes very little difference to the speed/reliability obtained but the general level of noise on the mains makes a big difference.

On the other hand in my experience the difference between being on the same ring and a different ring in the same house is drastic in both throughput and reliability (kept loosing connection between the two).

If you have had a difference experience that just goes to show how temperamental these things are. I guess if your requirements are low then they can be a solution but frankly one needs to ignore the guff about headline speeds.

I would liken them to G.fast, sort of works but really FTTP is the way to go.

It's certainly a shame as they are good priced. The port is so you can plug a wired only device in to it - printer maybe.. Backhaul is still done via WiFi. On the larger discs all of them can be wired if you so wish.

the powerline adaptors whilst saying av600 are not likely to be gigabit nics .. Also given the speed you have the with the current adaptors you may not get much more on av1000.