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On 18/06/15 16:40, Neil Winchurst wrote: > Can anyone advise a reasonable way to boost the signal, please. The > house is modern, 12 years old, so we are not talking thick stone or > brick walls here. And there is only one upstairs floor. The router is a > netgear WNR2200. I've got the best answer for this I think - I've already done this many, many times for friends and clients and have the same setup running here. We weren't getting much coverage from the crappy Virgin-supplied "superhub" and the missus wanted proper wifi out in the back garden, 20m+ and several insulated walls away from my office. Abuse high-power APs designed more for outdoor or P2P deployments. I've got a few Engenius ENS200s/ENH200s pointed strategically outwards from my PoE switch in the office and now we don't only get full bars anywhere on the property, I can still connect to my SSIDs 50m down the road. You won't need anything quite that dramatic - a single ENS200 or similar and a PoE adaptor dangling from your router and angled roughly towards your lounge will immediately solve your problem, and then some. Put it in the correct mode and all DHCP/VLAN and other layer2 stuff will be seamlessly passed back through to your router to handle. If you don't mind a slightly tatty unit that's already done a few years on site and maybe a bit scuffed with ports full of insect eggs and maybe some spiders let me know and I'll post you one - I have literally boxes of these to hand. It'll be fully functional but in need of a cleanup. Cheers -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq