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scottwhatever
Novice
Mar 17, 2015

WN3000RP - shared house question

HI, I currently live in a bedsit with about 25 rooms, 3 floors, and has Wifi with Virgin Media. The router is on the first floor and I'm on ground floor. The signal is very poor, in fact neglible. ...
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Babylon5's avatar
Babylon5
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Mar 18, 2015
Your use of a range extender will have negligible effect on other users, however I don’t think it will meet your expectations given the position you plan to use it in. For a range extender to propagate a good throughput to its clients it needs to be in a position where it will receive a good throughput itself from the base station.

I would suggest that you consider Powerline products, some of which provide a WiFi Access Point at the remote end;

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Search/searchTerm/powerline.htm