Wifi Range Extender

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hey all

I have recently moved into quite a large period house 3,000 square feet and having trouble getting wifi signal (either it is very weak or cuts out in certain parts of the house) specfically the attic and upstairs part of our extension. The router is current in the living room ground floor, an eircom one, as that is where our phone line is.

Would you reckon a simple device like the Net Gear Wifi range extender would do the trick, like this one;

http://www.pcworld.ie/action/searchsite/WN3000RP100UKS-Universal-WiFi-Range-Extender

I presume this will just need to plugged in and paired with my current router and will have no issue working with a standard Eircom wifi router?
 
I haven't used that specific device but a device like that should do the trick if both sections of the house are on the same electrical circuit (I think that's the term - I'm not an electrician). This is almost always the case but I've seen cases where they don't work because an extension has been added or part of the house rewired and a separate circuit was added.

I've used the following and know it to work well: http://www.tp-link.com/en/products/details/?model=TL-WPA281
 
Cheers Dearg Doom

I actually ended up picking up a Devolo range extender that uses electrical plugs and creates a seperate wifi signal in any other room in the house - works absolutely perfect so far.
 
The one that plugs into wall sockets is the best but be sure to only have it plugged in on own, not on a adaptor.
 
johnpdolan said:
The one that plugs into wall sockets is the best but be sure to only have it plugged in on own, not on a adaptor.
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I have ones on adapters that work fine. If the adapter has built in filtering, then you may have issues.
 
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