On Thursday, 2 March 2017 21:54:06 UTC, wrote:
On Thursday, 2 March 2017 20:12:40 UTC, DerbyBorn wrote:
Daughter is trying to use WiFi instead of a wire travelling up the stairs.
What should she consider - and Extender that appears to boost the signal

Most respondent seem to be assuming that if you use a mains-borne ethernet signal, you're stuck with hard-wired internet rather than wifi. It's definitely not an either/or: eg I cured a wifi blackspot in my house (which has lots of thick stone walls) using one of these: http://tinyurl.com/jlagfrb) (or http://uk.tp-link.com/products/details/TL-WPA4220.html)

Extenders / boosters / repeaters boost the signal level, but because they share the same frequency band as the 'hub thing' they halve the speed.

I currently use my auxillary extender thingy on a completely different network to the main one, so my devices swap over to the best signal when necessary. I must admit I had a lot of grief getting it set up, and once it worked I just left well alone... I've never quite understood the whole speed-halving malarkey; am I avoiding it by what I'm doing? Or can I simply change the names of the two routers to match; or do they clash then? Ideally I'd much rather have just the one wifi network, for sure.

David