[mike162]

Hello,

 

my first time here.

 

My house is a bit bigger than average and my router is in one corner of the house - I can't move it - and parts of my house are not covered by the wifi.

 

My PC is hardwired, so no problem. My partners' laptop is getting a good signal, and my smart TVs are wired to homeplugs and work just fine.

 

The problem is with my iPad connection. I thought the wifi side of the homeplugs would do the trick, but I would need a third homeplug to cover everywhere, and worse, the iPad treats each homeplug as a separate wifi, and I have manually to swap to each as I move around (thats not on!) Finally my Sonos music system won't be controlled via the homeplugs wifi, only by the router wifi.

 

My router is a Technicolor 582n pro, which according to the Consumer Association is OK, though it doesn't support 5GHz wi-fi protocol and its ethernet ports are not the fastest. My homeplugs are TPLink AV500s.

 

Is there;

 

a)  a super powerfull router (I guess not or we would all have them) or would a 5GHz router do the trick?

 

b)  a powerful wifi extender that I can sit in the middle of my house to cover the whole house that I can log onto with my iPad?

 

c)  another solution?

 

 

Thanks in advance