WIFI boost strength

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1cdorli

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Before I go further, "going Fibre or buying another Router" are, for financial reasons, totally out.
I have a Huawei B315 router, and want to know if it is possible to boost the signal.
I've read about using aluminium foil, aluminium cans etc.
Has anyone tried something like this?
 
1cdorli said:
Before I go further, "going Fibre or buying another Router" are, for financial reasons, totally out.
I have a Huawei B315 router, and want to know if it is possible to boost the signal.
I've read about using aluminium foil, aluminium cans etc.
Has anyone tried something like this?
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I tried it for fun once- does it work yes but probably not in the way you want it.
Currently if you were to be able to see the way wifi is spread from the router antennae it's in a circle (around the antennae spreading to the whole house) - by using the can you directing one side of that circle to the other so creating a stronger semi circle on one side, so the other side will be dead.

so if your router is on one side of the house and you don't need signal to say go behind the router then that will work.
but in most scenarios this isn't the case.

So what exactly is the issue that you currently have?
 
Many thanks. My router sits on top of my PC, and mine and my wife's phones both access it from around the apartment. If I was to cut a coffee can lengthways, would I place it on top of the router? Then just play around with the position?
 
Cool. I use WIFI Analyser, so I'll set my can up, check the reading, and move it around a bit. Once again, thanks
 
So further to this,I have a Huawei router supplied for free by the ISP. I called them saying my speed was quite slow in relation to my 100mb line.
I get average of 50-60 mb in certain parts of the house and 30-40mb a little further away.
If i run a test right next to the router i get in the 80-95mb region. . I got a free upgrade to 200mb till Jan but never seen that.
ISP tells me to unplug router and go direct into laptop. Bam 200mb straight away.
My question.should i invest in a better router to get the most out of my line?
 
Andy Rose said:
So further to this,I have a Huawei router supplied for free by the ISP. I called them saying my speed was quite slow in relation to my 100mb line.
I get average of 50-60 mb in certain parts of the house and 30-40mb a little further away.
If i run a test right next to the router i get in the 80-95mb region. . I got a free upgrade to 200mb till Jan but never seen that.
ISP tells me to unplug router and go direct into laptop. Bam 200mb straight away.
My question.should i invest in a better router to get the most out of my line?
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This: https://www.takealot.com/mercusys-halo-s12-ac1200-whole-home-mesh-wi-fi-system-2-pack/PLID68906908
Or this: https://www.takealot.com/tp-link-deco-e4-ac1200-whole-home-mesh-wi-fi-system-2-pack/PLID55960840

You'll have 5Ghz wifi where you couldn't get crappy 2.4Ghz with either of these. Note they both only have 100Mb ports. You'll need the Deco M4 for 1Gb ports.
 
Andy Rose said:
So further to this,I have a Huawei router supplied for free by the ISP. I called them saying my speed was quite slow in relation to my 100mb line.
I get average of 50-60 mb in certain parts of the house and 30-40mb a little further away.
If i run a test right next to the router i get in the 80-95mb region. . I got a free upgrade to 200mb till Jan but never seen that.
ISP tells me to unplug router and go direct into laptop. Bam 200mb straight away.
My question.should i invest in a better router to get the most out of my line?
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Your router is connecting and able to sustain a 200Mb connection and you have the Lan ports to support this.
To answer your question will a better router help - well yes but to a point, once you create a bottleneck not much you can do.
Wifi is an inherently unstable tech 2.4 Ghz is prone to interference and can't achieve as high speed as 5 ghz (not to mention not sure if your router supports 2.4n or just bg etc) , while 5ghz is less prone to interference but cant get as much distance as 2.4ghz. not to mention every active wifi device on your network shares a piece of this bandwidth. There are software systems within routers like Mu-Mimo to help alleviate this and hardware like wired access points (not repeaters as that just adds to the headache) or the Mesh systems @LCBXX recommended help.
TBH nothing beats a hard wired connection.


For starters i would say where ever possible and if device can use ethernet and connect directly to the router.
There are other thing you could do depending on budget and ability.
 
Andy Rose. Sounds great! However, my PC doesn't have a built-in WiFi, so is there another option? Not pricey!!
 
Quick hijack. Anyone know how to setup a DLink DAP-1155 as an access point to connect to my router over wifi, and then further spread the blanket with said AP over the house?
 
isie said:
other option would be to flash something like tomato or DD WRT on to it


any reason you want to use it like this - TBH I think wireless repeaters cause more problems then they solve.
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It's just laying around at home. Thought I can use it to spread the range to the yard.
 
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