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26-02-2025 12:59 PM
Please help! I have no idea what I am doing and vodafone are totally useless in providing any advice. Maybe its my questions, but i'll move past my beef with them. Apologies if this is long, the advisor at vodafone clearly had no clue what I was on about so trying to be clear.
We have an L shaped house with thick walls. The router is in the upstairs corner of the house and we need signal to the rest of the house. Vodafone have now provided us three routers.
Because of the house structure, It is difficult to get signal out to the wings of the house as the signal to the nearest points we can plug a booster in is apparently too far for them to pickup a decent signal. We did forsee this (been struggling with this for year and previously used a number of 4g routers which were fairly expensive and unsatisfactory) so we have put cat 6 cable in to hardwire boosters/extenders/access points into these areas.
One length should not be a problem as we can attach a vodafone booster (via cat 6 with another connected wirelessly). The cat 6 to the other bit of the house exits on the ceiling, so I need an appropriate gizmo to go on the ceiling. My best option seems to be to buy a TP-link access point for this area (or another brand, I don't care but TP-link seem to get good responses on here). I know getting the access point to work with the vodafone router may be a further issue for my ignorant self, but I am trying to work out if I can wirelessly link a vodafone booster to the access point that I buy?
The third booster provides signal to our office. This bit of the set up seems to be working currently!
I'd be most grateful for any advice (even if it's a give up and find yourself an engineer, you are out of your depth!).
Many thanks