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Old Feb 23, 2013 | 11:22 am
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Router Question

Okay on my travels I often visit a large building with 1-1½ft thick walls and there is appalling wifi there as a result. The broadband comes in at the top of the building at one end (don't ask) and the signal is not reaching the other end. So I bought one of these wifi repeaters https://www.amazon.co.uk/Netgear-WN3...1642874&sr=1-3 which didn't work at all, because it said that you should see all the lights lit up at the end of the set up procedure. Sadly no matter how many times I tried or how many settings I changed I could not get all the lights to come on and returned it. Plus it couldn't be placed in a very handy location as it needed to be within range of the existing signal.

I replaced them (at very short notice ) with a powerline set so that anyone who went out of wifi range could connect their laptops but people now have tablets and therefore no ethernet socket. So can anyone think of a clever way to connect the powerline ethernet cable to wifi router giving wifi down there? There was at one point a wifi powerline set ) which gave up the ghost a bit quickly, but having shelled out for the set we've currently got, just adding say a cheap router would be better.

I've never tried this approach so can anyone suggest what router we could use (preferably available in the UK/EU) by just plugging in an ethernet cable - Thanks.
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