I need help with WIFI

[jtmoseley]

So my house has really thick walls. Like a foot and a half thick. My router is at one side of the house, but my room is on the complete opposite side and on the 2nd floor. I don't want to have to drill through the house for cables... I live in a 150 year old house. Naturally, wifi doesn't exactly work good enough for me to game or really watch any media in my room because of how far it is from the router, so I am in the living room. Anyways, is there any possible way I could get internet in that room without drilling holes?

[CheeseburgerChad]

Look into a product called "Powerline". Several companies make them. It runs an ethernet signal through the power lines in your house so you don't have to run new cables. I used one from TP-Link for a while and it was great.

[CheeseburgerChad]

Once connected, you could also connect a cheap router to the connection in your room for WiFi.

[jtmoseley]

3 minutes ago, CheeseburgerChad said:

Look into a product called "Powerline". Several companies make them. It runs an ethernet signal through the power lines in your house so you don't have to run new cables. I used one from TP-Link for a while and it was great.

Do you just plug it in and link them and you are good? How does that work?

[TheKDub]

2 minutes ago, jtmoseley said:

Do you just plug it in and link them and you are good? How does that work?

 

Pretty much yeah.

 

As long as the wiring in your house isn't ancient and trashy, it should work fine.

[CheeseburgerChad]

There are two of them. One plugs into an outlet near your wifi router (or modem, I suppose) and connects to the router itself with an ethernet cable (as you would plug in a computer). The ethernet signal it gets from the router it then sends that signal via your power lines, to the receiving unit somewhere in a different outlet (say, in an outlet in your room). The receiving outlet does the same thing but backwards, sending the signal it gets from the powerline via an ethernet cable to your device or router in your room.

[jtmoseley]

2 minutes ago, CheeseburgerChad said:

There are two of them. One plugs into an outlet near your wifi router (or modem, I suppose) and connects to the router itself with an ethernet cable (as you would plug in a computer). The ethernet signal it gets from the router it then sends that signal via your power lines, to the receiving unit somewhere in a different outlet (say, in an outlet in your room). The receiving outlet does the same thing but backwards, sending the signal it gets from the powerline via an ethernet cable to your device or router in your room.

interesting

[CheeseburgerChad]

Just now, jtmoseley said:

interesting

I was skeptical at first too, but it worked out well for me so I can't complain. Speeds didn't seem to be too bad for me either, although it is correct that this could vary based on the way your house was wired. Worst case scenario you could return it and try something else.

[jtmoseley]

Just now, CheeseburgerChad said:

I was skeptical at first too, but it worked out well for me so I can't complain. Speeds didn't seem to be too bad for me either, although it is correct that this could vary based on the way your house was wired. Worst case scenario you could return it and try something else.

Yeah. Thanks for the information, I might try it out.

[CheeseburgerChad]

Just now, jtmoseley said:

Yeah. Thanks for the information, I might try it out.

Best of luck!