Poor wifi - is ethernet cable the only solution?

[hanette]

Hi
Moved to a new house - wifi is not very strong - tried putting splitters in all phone sockets but still slow, but just about usable. Sky is our broadband provider.

My son's bedroom is a converted garage where the signal is really poor, pretty much unusable. Bought a Sky Booster box to increase the range into the garage area. Didn't make any difference.

Is the only solution to run an ethernet cable from the router in the living room into my son's bedroom into the garage? In fact would this work? He'd have to be wired of course, but it would be better than nothing.

Thanks in advance

[Cindy34]

When you say WiFi signal is weak, have you got good speed when using direct connection to the router?

If you are getting a good speed at the router, then using an ethernet over powerline can make things better in other parts of the house.

[Cindy34]

www.amazon.co.uk/TP-Link-TL-WPA4220KIT-Powerline-Configuration-Smartphone/dp/B00DHB2T44?tag=mumsnet&ascsubtag=mnforum-21

This is a good bit of kit. There is also a version with two WiFi access points which is better value than buying another WiFi access point later.

It uses internal house wiring. Need to be able to plug into a socket (not extension cable) near the router and at the place(s) you need the WiFi transmitter. The WiFi transmitter also has ethernet ports so can direct connect equipment, handy for smartTV/streaming boxes.

[Cindy34]

TP-LInk WPA4220

The AV500 version I would suggest.

[Justgotosleepnow]

2 things you can do
Change channel as some less used channels are stronger. You need to get into the router settings for this.

Buy a booster thing that plugs into your house electricity sockets.

[CMOTDibbler]

We use Billion powerline ethernet over power wireless plugs, which work brilliantly. They also allow the sky box and dhs desktop PC to be plugged into ethernet cables with nothing trailing

[Cindy34]

Twin pack

[hanette]

Thanks for the replies. I bought the booster from Sky already and it's find via an Ethernet cable. But these power plugs look perfect
Thanks vm for the recommendations

[NoWayYesWay]

I use the TP Links as suggested by Cindy. They are really good. But I was a little surprised that they were not easier to set up. I'm usually good at things like that but I struggled with them. Hopefully, it was just me being thick

[Cindy34]

It depends on the router. One was easy to setup as the router had WPS button. Simply plugged in and pushed the button to clone the WiFi access code. Key thing was to initially have the WiFi module near to the router, so it could clone the access code.
On another system which did not have WPS button thing, had to setup using the software using laptop connected via ethernet, bit of a pain but easy enough once config software installed.