Increasing Wifi Range

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Vileshade

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Basically I just moved into a new house for uni and some of our upstairs rooms can barely connect to our wifi. I was just wondering what the best solution for this would be. The speed of the wifi next to the router is about 30 meg. The router is a Virgin media vmdg480. I was thinking about getting a TP-Link PA411KIT AV500 500 Mbps Powerline Adapter - Twin Pack to try out. The only thing I'm concerned about is that some people have said certain appliances can interfere with these and we have a lot of stuff in the kitchen, since it's a student house.
Any advice or other ideas would be great, price isn't too much of an issue as long as it does what we need.
 
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christinebcw
"WiFi Environmental conditions", by the way, means "what appliances can block or interfere with signals", "how many walls and floors are being passed thru." And don't forget closets full of metal hangers, either. WiFi testing can be fairly easy to do - move the laptop around and see where's the best location. But of course, "best location for WiFi" and "best location for your use" might not be the same! That's why God invented hair-pulling.

Powerlines have a wonderful feature: they either work, or they don't. There aren't 'settings' to fiddle with, no cajoling, no blood sacrifices help either. I can plug in the host, plug in the receiver and within a few minutes, I'll see the "three lights" come on to indicate success. If not...
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"WiFi Environmental conditions", by the way, means "what appliances can block or interfere with signals", "how many walls and floors are being passed thru." And don't forget closets full of metal hangers, either. WiFi testing can be fairly easy to do - move the laptop around and see where's the best location. But of course, "best location for WiFi" and "best location for your use" might not be the same! That's why God invented hair-pulling.

Powerlines have a wonderful feature: they either work, or they don't. There aren't 'settings' to fiddle with, no cajoling, no blood sacrifices help either. I can plug in the host, plug in the receiver and within a few minutes, I'll see the "three lights" come on to indicate success. If not, then I can try moving the Receiver Unit to a different wall-socket, or the Host Unit (and using a longer cable). (Just make sure you're plugging Powerlines into the wall socket - NOT power-strips.)
 
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Powerline networking is definitely worth a try. Vacuums and microwave ovens reportedly interfere the most, but I have not noticed any issues. They are also good at uploads. I have used both Linksys and Actiontec powerline products, and they both work fine.
 
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