Kibkom North Cyprus Forum

Gents;

I have two ruddy great concrete walls between my router and living room TV and the signal there is all over the show.
Would a WIFI extender placed in that room boost the signal enough for consistent WIFI for streaming TV?

Thanks in advance

TML.

This is not addressed to me of course, but just to say I have a WFi extender down in our garden gazebo and the TV down there works perfectly. The distance is approximately 200ft or more and must go through concrete walls of house.

At home in the uk 100+ meg the wifi extender only gives 15to 20 meg

Why not try using these-
https://www.amazon.co.uk/TL-PA4010PKIT- ... B01G5Q9E0O
I have them allover the house and never had any signal problems.

Hi torontomapleleaf,

I use two routers,
Main one next to my PC.
Where cable from roof comes in.
One on TV Stand Shelf, beside Android Devices etc.
This is hard Wired to Main router.
Drilled holes in the wall, big enough to fit cable with Ethernet plug fitted.
If you can't drill holes, try running the cable along skirting board etc and round doors.
I used a hot glue gun, to keep cable secure and in place, two man job.

I had the flexible Ethernet cable made up by, ACDİNÇ ELECTRONICS LTD Karakum.

Also had my ISP configure Routers to work together.

Wi-Fi works well in & around our house now.

I did try Wi-Fi extenders, but didn't seem to work.

Good Luck TML

Hi there I use a combination of hard wired - from the
Router, and Powerline adaptors.

Hard wired is definitely the best performance-wise, then Powerline.

Avoid wifi, there are too many devices nowadays competing for frequency slots!

I use a similar system to Navek but have my second router as a wireless hotspot as well as feeding a switch in my office. The whole system (apart from the wifi signal of course) is hard wired Cat5 internal and Cat6 where it moves outside (stronger stuff for this weather) and never have problems with it really. Having said that, this last week I had a fault on the cable from the roof into my router - this is a fault I have never seen before - and think it is worth mentioning so others can be aware it happens from time to time.

MM's guys came to fix a cable fault and found that the fault was an almost totally destroyed cable from the receive aerial across the roof and into the house. Last winters heavy rains and in particular the hail stones had destroyed the outer cable sheath then the rain had got into it and when the hot weather came it just crumbled away. But the real culprit was the hail, I have worked with CAT5 for years now and never seen this sort of damage, even down to broken copper inside the covers - keep it in mind folks if your signal suddenly fails! MM's guys had checked remotely and knew it was a cable fault so you don't need to keep jumping up onto your roof Keith, just to check it - lol.

Hi waddo, I've had 3 new downleads (plus the original) so I do appreciate what you're saying.

I did notice the other day that the wire which goes outside and feeds the TV in the Kitchen was looking very tatty - did I replace it? - did I wrap a load of PVC tape around it?

- Answers on the back of a £10 note to.....

Even using CAT6 in this climate, I think that we should really use conduit, or hosepipe, to protect the cable from the elements.

Must get around to that, 'sometime'

Or use exterior grade Cat 5/6 cable which is also UV protected.

It would seem to make more sense than the interior grade stuff which MM (and others?) use here. It certainly costs more but I would have thought that savings could be made by not having to constantly replace the exterior wiring from the receiver to the router.

And to think I left a 100m drum behind when we moved here thinking I’d have no further use for it after “retiring”

Hi Mowgli597
"Or use exterior grade Cat 5/6 cable which is also UV protected."

This is the cable I have for internal use, 7 metres.
Does this meet with one's approval?... Will cope with up to 20 times faster than I'm getting at the moment.

Cat5e: Faster with Less Interference

Category 5 enhanced cabling, also known as Cat5e, is an improvement on Cat5 cabling.
It was made to support 1000 Mbps "gigabit" speeds, so in theory, it's faster than Cat5.
It it also cuts down on crosstalk, the interference you can sometimes get between wires inside the cable.
Both of these improvements mean you're more likely to get fast,
reliable speed out of Cat5e cabling compared to Cat5.
https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2013/04/a ... t6-cables/

Navek

My post related to the durability of cables, not the speed. I’d guess that the majority of connections here in the TRNC are made using receiver antennae mounted on a roof. The antenna is then connected to the router via a cable which often runs across the roof. These are susceptible to degradation by UV rays from the wonderful sunshine which we enjoy (in other places similar cables might be affected by rain, wind, mechanical chafing etc).

Outdoor cable is designed to protect against these elements. Indoor cable (such as your photo shows) isn’t.

If you’d followed the link in my post you’d have seen that it points to Cat 6 outdoor cable. Which is what was on the drum I left behind

Hi Mowgli597,

I did follow and read the link in your post about Cat 6 outdoor cable.
It was only after that, I checked my cable.
I wasn't aware until then it was Cat5e cable,
which I then checked out online.

When I purchased it, I asked for good quality flexible cable,
as i was routing it round doors etc.
Obviously the quality of the outdoor cable is more important,
and how it is fitted, not blowing about in the wind.