BT whole home Wi-Fi?

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Does anyone use this to boost their WiFi? I'm looking for something as our virgin media signal is weak in one of the bedrooms upstairs and it seems to be a good option.

Our virgin was rubbish in a bedroom so I bought a booster from amazon for about £20.

We have a couple of NETGEAR boosters. Just plug them in and link them to our wifi. They work really well.

Yes my booster is Netgear.

Thanks.

Has anyone got BT whole home Wi-Fi?

I would stay well away from BT wifi. I had a really bad experience with them and have heard reports of bad service from other people as well.

It's not BT WiFi. It's the whole home WiFi booster.

I have it. Mostly good and great signal over house. I was sometimes (often) having to restart it, but think the issues may have been with a device (fire tv), so atm all good. Victorian house huge walls. Router at one far end. We are Vodafone fibre broadband via phone line. Hope that helps

Thanks cotton

I'm hoping to have them in the 2 furthered away but opposite bedrooms of that makes any sense. It's a lot of outlay if it doesn't solve the problem.

That is exactly what I was thinking about this morning.
Now I know I have to get myself to the shop and get a couple of those recommended above.
Thank you all

We have it. It was very unreliable when we first got it but BT have ironed out all the bugs and it's been fine for the last year or so.

There are two ways to hook it up - one where each disc is connected to each other via Wi-fi (with one disc via network cable to the router) and they relay the signal between themselves ("mesh") - this is what most people do. It works well if you've got a big house with several storeys and the router to far away from some rooms.

The other way is to run network/Ethernet cables from your router to each disc - this is more efficient and faster but not worth doing unless you can lay network cables without looking terrible. We had to do it this way as our house has thick brick/concrete walls that the mesh layout wouldn't penetrate.

There are now other companies selling the same thing, including Google.

No.

Looked at it but as we already had Google Home devices decided to go with Google wi-fi instead. We live in quite a big bungalow and we have got adequate coverage from a basic pack of two units -- I was expecting to need at least 3 or probably 4 given the distances involved. Previously we had a TP-Link Archer but even with boosters there were a lot of signal issues.

I would recommend it -- but if you can wait the price regularly drops by about £40. The next time is likely to be around Black Friday, but bookmark it on Argos and check every couple of days.

I don't know what the whole home thing is, but I have BT extenders for two areas of our house and were far easier to set up than other brands I'd tried.

I found I had to put the extender bits half way to our blackspots. Seems to work fine, but took a bit of experimenting