11-06-2022 20:57
I have a relatively small house on 2 levels and the only rooms I can get decent WiFi in are the one where the router is placed and the room above it.
I have tried moving the router which didn't hell as it meant it was too far from the TV; tried splitting the signal . Please advise - is there a booster that works? I have a netgear booster but it doesn't work with now. Need to get it sorted as iy drives me crazy and need to stop spending a fortune on data.
Thanks
20-06-2022 7:47
Don't know why it wouldn't work. Tried it in various places around the house but the strongest signal I could get in the room which are "dead" was one bar which kept fluctuating to nothing.
Been with NOW for 6 months so couldn't be that!
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12-06-2022 14:17
What router are you using?
If you can you should keep the router away from a few things, stuff like TV's on the floor/in the corner, fishtanks, microwaves, window ledges can all affect the signal.
If you have a smartphone try downloading an app called wifi analyzer ( android) which you can use to check the signal strength
20-06-2022 7:47
Thanks, have done that.
20-06-2022 8:41 - edited 20-06-2022 8:49
@Anonymous User
Good for you then!
The thing with a WiFi booster like the Netgear is that it is no good using it in a dead room; it needs to be within the range of reliable WiFi from the Now router.
It then picks up the WiFi from the router, and casts a circle of further WiFi range around itself which (you hope) encompasses all the dead rooms. Though you will see that, almost by definition, up to half of the range is wasted, as it just laps back over the range that the router has anyway, if the router WiFi is half decent,
In fact, absent an asymmetrical WiFi footprint in your property (the thing boosters are really designed for) the best place to put it when you have a Now router can be right next to the router; and you can then regard the booster as providing all your WiFi.
But mesh is better….