Wifi deadzone in house, how to remedy?

[celticguardian]

Hi guys.

In my home, I pretty much with a wifi dead-zone, where I can just get a signal with my ipad, but my ps4 and PC seem out of range, I know that the geometry/geography of the dead zone is less than optimal (furthest room from the router, and on the tip of an "L" if that makes sense).

At present, we have a BT home Hub 3.0

http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/bt/bt-home-hub-3

(the link contains the specs of the hub, sorry wasn't sure what info was relevant and what wasn't).

I am assuming that it is a pretty limited model, and an antiquated one at that, and so I am guessing that a new, more powerful router would be the way to go......

here is my confusion:

1) What things should I be looking for in particular when buying a router? Put another way, given that range seems to be an issue, how I can ensure that I get a sufficiently powerful router that will provide a greater degree of coverage for the entire household?

 

[SoggyTissue]

you should look for one that has an uplink port on the back, therefore you can plug your bt into the uplink of new router and not have to fiddle with anything settings connecting to btinternet. simply search for your new wifi and connect to it.

the issue with wifi is that no matter how strong they say it is, its highly dependent on your house walls, i sit less than 10 meters away from my self bought 'powerful' router and its signal to my room (which is just 1 door away) varies between full strength and half strength. house is made of brick walls, not plasterboard.

you would probably get good performance at a fraction of the price by using wall plugs
http://www.explainthatstuff.com/broadbandoverpowerlines.html

you can get 2 plugs and some rj45 cables and hardwire yourself.

bt router > rj45 > wall socket ethernet plug > ~~~ internal house wiring~~~ > wall socket ethernet plug in your room > rj45 > your pc

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

Replace your "made as cheaply as possible" Home Hub with a decent third-party wireless router like I did.

Replaced it with a Billion wall-mounted router which has external antennas and never regretted it.

Configuration to connect to BT Internet with a third-party a router will be necessary but it's not difficult, I did it without any help from other people.

 

[celticguardian]

Phillip, Do you have any recommendations as to wireless routers?

I was leaning towards the google router