No WiFi signal in bedroom despite extender

[LargeProsecco]

Just had Virgin broadband installed & despite buying a WiFi extender, I cannot get a signal in the bedroom (it's through 2-3 thick walls from the router).

I can't move the router closer due to the connection point.

Any ideas?

A TP link hardwire adapter. You pair them, then plug one in where you need Internet. You can connect using an ethernet cable.

www.tp-link.com/uk/home-networking/range-extender/

Thanks - I have the TP link AC750 (which I paired with WiFi) and still not getting anywhere.

I think it's because my flat is an L shape, with external walls & grass between. The WiFi router & my bedroom are at opposite ends of the L - if that makes sense.

I'm on WiFi, through feet thick medieval walls and up a floor. All the WiFi stuff is downstairs.

You must have something plugged in wrong, surely? That really doesn't sound right!

Maybe I'll try an Ethernet cable - although it will have to go across the front room, through the hall & then to the top of my bedroom - which is probably about 30 feet.

Could you use powerline adaptors? (Running the WiFi through your mains).

That's not what you need - you need the sort that one unit plugs in near the router, and then it sends the signal down your electric wires to a second unit you plug in in your 'dead' zone.

I've got this one www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0844VKK1L/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_P5BRSE52CDCASMKHPBTC?psc=1&_encoding=UTF8&tag=mumsnetforu03-21

@ItsAllGoingToBeFine - I have no idea what that means

Yep, powerline adaptors are what you need!

Oh thank you!

I am feeling rather ignorant & middle-aged!

I was also coming on to recommend a TP link adapter (also a virgin media customer!).

Could you try moving the adapter to the middle of your flat, or the corner of the "L"? Hopefully then it would pick up the wifi signal from the modem and transmit it to your bedroom.

Something like this:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/TL-WPA4220KIT-Powerline-Broadband-Configuration-UK/dp/B01LXOZ4EN/ref=mpssa113?crid=2159SP29ABS&dchild=1&keywords=wifi+powerline+adapter&qid=1632840553&sprefix=wifi+power&sr=8-3

We ended up running ethernet cables due to having brick walls in the house but were lucky enough to be able to hide the ethernet cables.

We had tried every extender going. Is this for a permanent set up Large? If it is it might be worth either routing the cable yourself or getting someone in to do it. We did test it first with a really long ethernet cable to make sure it was working fine before I started crawling around in loft spaces (smallest person in family)

Basically you plug the hub one in beside router and connect with a cable, you plug the other one in a plug socket where you want coverage, and the signal goes through the electricity cables to give you internet. No trailing cables or signals going through walls.

We had to get an engineer in to run a cable from the router around the edge of the house and then attach a second router (same code etc) to the far end of the house. It works well.

We got a Mesh system to combat our dead zones. It was pricey but an extender did nothing whereas the Mesh with a receiver thing in the hard to reach rooms did the job.

Extenders aren't the same as powerline adaptors by the way. Extenders mostly just try to amplify the Wifi to give it a bigger range, but if you have an external wall between you then it most likely won't be very effective.The powerline ones use your electricity cables so it doesn't matter whether there are walls or not.

And there shouldn't be any need to run any cables. Unless your electricity wiring is absolutely bonkers (happens in very old houses sometimes) you can just plug in the two units and off you go. We use them in our house as we have an extension through an external wall, and in my mum's house as it's very big and sprawling, so she has ones downstairs and up.

Yes. Power line adaptors. We only ended up needing 1 and, even through these walls, get good signal upstairs, in the loft and in the garden.

They are easy to install.

Thank you so much! I'll go back to Argos & exchange it for a powerline one

Ethernet over power.

Then WiFi dongle

Me again, not much further forward 😕

I bought the Ethernet cables but it didn't make any difference.

Plus it's my iPad or phone I want to use in the bedroom, which don't have an Ethernet connection.

Help!!!

Have you got a WiFi version of the powerline that you bought?

Give the actual model number here and will investigate :)

We have 3 WiFi transmitters and one reaches the bottom of the garden and 2 hardwired Ethernet connections. It’s a bit of an IT house.

We ended up getting a second hub in the dead zone and joining that to the first hub via Ethernet for us it was the only thing that worked,

TP Link router and put your Virgin not-so superhub into modem mode.