UK How to go about adding a secondary router/wifi hub

[Brad0593]

Hi all

I’m after a bit of advice regarding wifi/secondary router.
Data is not a strong point of mine so any advice would be very much appreciated.

I currently have the wifi hub set up in the hallway - located centrally in the house.
Wireless connections with phone, tablet and laptop works great, but for some reason the televisions throughout the house struggle to hold a stable connection for very long. Why, I don’t know.

I’m in the middle of renovating the house and have thought about hard wire an ethernet cable to each TV.

The problem now is that I don’t want that many cables on show in the hallway at the back of the hub - which has prompted me to come here and seek advice.

I’ve had a few suggestions about running a secondary router and having it somewhere out of site (I,e - in the attic). And using this second hub to house all the ethernet cables that would run to each television.

So my questions are:
1) Does anyone have any other suggestions?

2) If no, then how do I go about adding a second hub?
Is it as simple as running an ethernet from one hub to the other? (+ power supply obviously)

3) If that’s the route to go down, can anyone suggest a secondary router to use?
someone has told me about a TP-Link hub, but couldn’t remember which model.

Thanks in advance for any replies and suggestions

 

[plugsandsparks]

Thats even before round trip delay, lol

 

[mhar]

I just envy James' speed. Out here in the sticks its all FTC and we get about 30/5 on a good day. It's OK for download and streaming but not good for any video call/cctv upload back. Although I do need to investigate options for getting off of Sky as their modem/routers aren't that great but you get tied in with VOIP over them, so not so easy to swap out.

Sky have their own equipment within the exchange so it is not just swapping over a router, alterations have to be made in the exchange

Nah, mobile signal is carp as well!!

I recently did a 4G system as BT could only offer 4mbps fibre. Very poor area for mobile signal as well but by using a 4G aerial in the attic and having the router adjacent they consistently get 50mbps download. Luckily the people I was working with had sims for all four networks so I was able to experiment to see which network gave the best result.

I used a tp link 4G router and four of their Deco jobbies around the (v large) newbuild to give good coverage pretty much everywhere