Andrew Mawson wrote:

I have a BT Home Hub providing my ADSL & radiating / receiving wifi.
However I have a distributed site with several buildings well out of range
of the BT Home hub, all of which are linked by CAT5. So far I have
suffered using various wireless hubs cat5 connected, but it is a pain
having different ssid's etc and none are particularly reliable, needing
occasional rebooting.

Is there a 'range extender' that will sit on the cat5 network and
re-radiate/receive the BT Hub transparently in each of the buildings. I
don't really want a boosted full site wifi set up for security reasons.

(Although extensive this is essentially a home set up not a business, so
the budget is limited.)

AWEM

Hi,

There a a few options, including

1) WIFI range extender (repeater) - acts as a client and an AP

2) Stick an AP on the ethernet in bridging mode. If the ethernet is
logically the same network as the WIFI from the BT Home Hub, this should
work - set up with the same ESSID.

You may be interested in this -

http://www.tp-link.com/en/products/d...del=TL-WA901ND

I have one - very featureful piece of kit and supports several modes of
operating including the ones above. You'd pretty much hedge your bets with
that and it's not hugely expensive.

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