I've trimmed the previous messages (below) for readability. My thanks to Jonathan and Mark for your thoughts.
It's actually the opposite of a new build. It's an old stone cottage circa 1730. Thick stone walls and a thatched roof. We've just renovated it and used to live just next door (!) in an adjacent cottage, same vintage, same stone but Collyweston slate roof. The BT Home Hub was placed centrally next door and wifi reached every corner, but in the 'new' house it is in the boiler room which is actually a tiled lean-to of original vintage but essentially beyond the end wall of the actual cottage - so expecting much of the wifi would be a bit unfair. It was a total renovation right back to the structure of the building with all new plumbing and wiring, so I got the electrician to run Cat5 cable to four places and this is very successful. Two Macs plugged in have a good wired connection. The problems, which are resolving as we go along were:- 1. How to get two devices (BT Vision & Apple TV) into one outlet. Thanks for the advice, the Netgear switch works a treat. 2. How to get wifi in the house. Thanks again for the advice. The extender plugs in and gives me wifi through the old cottage (it's a long, L-shaped building now, having a new extension as well). 3. Background noise on the voice landline. BT have fixed this. 4. 2Mbits-if-I'm-lucky on broadband. I used to get between 3 & 6.5 just next door so I'm pushing BT to improve this. So it's only item 4 left to resolve now. The networking is really getting there. I will have a couple of other minor queries in later email. It's really beginning to come together and being able to ask these questions and get help from PLUG members has been fantastic. A million thanks, Brian Sent from my iPhone On 24 May 2012, at 10:30, Jonathan Gowar <j...@whiteheat.org.uk> wrote: > Correct me if I'm wrong, Brian, but is this a new house with RJ45 ports > in most rooms? > > On Thu, 2012-05-24 at 09:53 +0100, Mark Rogers wrote: >> >> >> It sounds like you would benefit from powerline networking, such as this: >> http://www.solwise.co.uk/net-powerline-av-index.htm _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
