Can anyone recommend a wifi booster?

A not so tech savvy friend of mine asked me to install one in his house.  I went for the affectionaly named TP-LINK TL-WA830RE as it was only 30 notes and got good reviews.  I've given it a trial run in my house and its a big improvement over the crummy sky router i have.

Havent got round to installing it at his house yet but hopefully it will do the trick with his lead walls or whatever he has

Unless you really need the WiFi I'd recommend you take a different route and buy homeplugs. It's the best thing I ever did.

Nothing truly beats connecting two things together with a cable.

Thanks, I already have homeplugs which do indeed work well. My tablet, phone and son's ipod all require wireless.

 

Thanks, but that is a bit big - I may want to deploy on the landing, so one of the plugin ones is probably more suitable. I notice on Amazon that there is a TP-LINK TL-WA850RE which fits the bill.

Ah fair do's...just thought I'd mention it in case you'd never heard of them. I hadn't heard of them 'til quite recently, nor have most of the people I know.

 

Will an Apple Airport Express do the job?  Link it to your router and it creates another wifi zone as well as other things.  Not very cheap I suppose but I'm sure I have read that it is a solution.

Apple Airport Extreme 802.11n base station.

 

Useful utility for checking if neighbours or other devices are hammering a particular wireless band.  Enables you to choose a quiet band and potentially improve performance although you may have checked this already.

 

http://www.metageek.net/products/inssider/

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I have already changed channel, but thanks for the suggestion. It is a long way from my wireless router to the back of the house.