Wifi signal boosters for the home

[GMJ]

Our Hive system to control our central heating has dropped out numerous times in the 4-5 months we have had it. One issue may be that perhaps the wifi signal may be too weak as the hub is too far from the receiver. At least I think I will need to rule this out before I can delve further.

As such I need to buy some wifi extenders/signal boosters.

Do any of you have these in your home? Do they work? If so could you please let me have a name/model number and/or link?

They need to be easy to install and use (I am no techie) and usable with the Hive system.

Thanks

 

[HurricaneSmith]

Scrub this reply as your thread title is about heating and not computers.

 

[El radge]

Our Hive system to control our central heating has dropped out numerous times in the 4-5 months we have had it. One issue may be that perhaps the wifi signal may be too weak as the hub is too far from the receiver. At least I think I will need to rule this out before I can delve further.

As such I need to buy some wifi extenders/signal boosters.

Do any of you have these in your home? Do they work? If so could you please let me have a name/model number and/or link?

They need to be easy to install and use (I am no techie) and usable with the Hive system.

Thanks

Only booster I have was provided by Vodafone my broadband company.
Works fine

 

[GMJ]

Scrub this reply as your thread title is about heating and not computers.

Well...about wifi more than heating really.

 

[Nick-Mandy]

We had a similar issue and found out extenders are pretty much useless.
We invested £170 in these bad boys

https://www.argos.co.uk/product/8912901

and they work so well. It took a while to find permanent places for the three units, so that we got maximum signal from each, but once set up, the system is far better than extenders.

 

[HurricaneSmith]

Well...about wifi more than heating really.

Here goes again Graham.

We have an unusual shape of house, and when we moved here all those years ago I bought an extender.

TP-LINK AC750 Model: RE200. Simple to use, read the leaflet, plug into a 240v socket, give the simplistic handshake, and away it went. We suffer from power cuts, and it automatically reboots without a kick from me. (Argos still sells that model at £20.99).

We went fibreoptic a few weeks ago, and they strongly recommended a ZYXEL WiFi extender, but being me, I switched on my TP-LINK gave the new router the handshake, and it worked just fine.