topic Wireless Range in Broadband

Wireless Range

Will122 — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 14:47:08 GMT

I have a garden office and my broadband keeps dropping, can generally get emails and sometimes ok for teams meetings etc but usually have to tether to my phone for these. My router is at the opposite corner of my house, and getting it hard wired in would be a pain. I have a sky booster as close to my office as possible. Can I add a second sky booster in my office that would link up? Or any other ideas?? Thanks

Re: Wireless Range

Chrisee — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 15:10:09 GMT

@Will122 for garden offices using wifi boosters are not recommended. Ideally you would run an ethernet cable to the unit which is the best and often cheapest solution. Alternatively you could try a Powerlinf Networking kit which assuming the office gets power from the house should work as it uses the maind cabelling to carry the data.

You need to buy a kit with two adapters the fist plugs into a wall socket in your home and connects tothe hub by the included ethernet cable the other adapter plugs into a wall socket in the out building.you can buy thse with built-in wifi access points or you can connect your existing booster if you want.

Re: Wireless Range

TimmyBGood — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 15:10:54 GMT

@Will122

Sky won't supply a booster for that purpose: the relevant 'guarantees' specifically exclude outbuildings and outside spaces.

Also note that boosters are really relays or repeaters and are intended to be mid-point devices. Having one in the same room as client hardware isn't particularly useful.