Full fibre broadband - wifi black spots

[yorktown]

Sorry, most boring thread ever but we have full fibre broadband and while it's great in parts of the house, in one room (furthest from router) we have pretty much no signal.
We've tried various boosters which haven't worked - but don't want to spend a lot to fix it - unless it's a sure fix.
What have others done? Not a large house, but the walls are thick.

I can't tell you but I am hoping someone will have an answer.

We've solid granite walls and a fairly big hous, BT gave us 2 booster rings free because of this. Have you tried TP link extenders, we use these at work to connect WiFi to outside buildings

We tried various extenders but eventually we bought a mesh WiFi network system - I think it was about £150 for three units, more expensive than we wanted but now all the bedrooms have decent coverage even for streaming and zoom calls, which we needed for work. The units connect to the main router (one physically, the other two wirelessly in the other rooms) and bounce the signal from one to the other. The brand we bought was TP-Link Deco but I suspect other brands will do exactly the same job.

Depending on who your contract is with you may get given additional extenders as part of a wifi guarantee. These should help improve the signal around your home , but you’ll need more of them than the average person because the thick walls are blocking the signal.

Things that will help are making sure your router is positioned off the floor, not in a cupboard and as close to the centre of the house as possible. Extenders should be placed half way between the router and where you want the signal to reach. (People often make the mistake of putting an extender in the room they want to reach which means the signal has to go double the distance it would from a correctly positioned extender). If you can think about minimising the number of floors and walls between router and extender.

If all else fails then look at a powerline solution which will use your home’s electrical wiring to distribute the wifi around your home into the poor signal area.

Thanks all. I am thinking about the Mesh system but don't want to spend that money for it not to work (or if another cheaper method would work). I've bought a new booster, I'll try that when I get the chance.

Enable the 2.5GHz network option on the router and separate out the 2.5GHz and 5GHz nets.

Then set all your devices to link to the 2.5GHz network only and see what happens.

2.5GHz is slower but generally gives a better signal at long range than 5GHz. It will still be enough for streaming.

Also consider moving your router to a more central position in the house. Or even replace the router with a more powerful one.

Order the mesh system from Amazon.

Try it out, if it doesn't work send it back and get a refund.