Wired/Wireless Network Extending

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Hi all,
The wifi signal in my bedroom is pretty poor due to being an old house with big thick walls, floor and a chimney breast to get to the main router.
In the bedroom I have a youview box using powerline adapators, ipad on wifi, and WDTV live on wifi. I'd like to improve the signal in the bedroom so can think of 3 options:
  1. Use a Wifi Extender somewhere in the house to boost the wifi signal
  2. Get a powerline/wifi extender (like this TP Link One) which gives me 2 ethernet ports and a wifi access port. Then the youview and WDTV could both be hird wired.
  3. Get a router for the bedroom, wired using powerline back to the main router. This is like the option above only a bit more future-proof (although I'm not sure what else I would want to add), but would require more setting up/potential hassle to get roaming between the 2 networks to work smoothly.
What would you do? Budget is ideally <£60 as that's what option 3 goes sells for.
 
Just to close this thread out, I managed to move the router to somewhere where the signal had to pass through less brick work and that really helped. I also set the wireless to a specific channel rather than the 'smart/auto' setting which seems to have stopped the wireless dropouts I was experiencing.
Now I just need to work out why a line test on the BT website (I've got BT broadband) shows 3.5Mb/s up to the router but only 0.7Mb/s download speed when the PC is connected directly to the gigbit ethernet port on the router!
 
neil_g said:
whats thr router syncing at?
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What do you mean? The online check (on BT website) showed exchange to router was 3.5Mb/s. PC is showing network connection speed of 1000Mb/s as you'd expect.
 
i was talking about what your router says in its web interface. if you log in to there you should see what the router is syncing with the exchange at.

what site are you downloading from? try a large file from the MS site such as a service pack.
 
Thanks, I'll give it a go when I get home from work. I was doing a broadbandspeedchecker.com check rather than downloading from a specific site.
 
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