WiFi in an old farmhouse

[Jack Russell]

We have wifi in the house but the size of the house and the thickness of walls makes it hard to get it around. It comes in from the office from a dish to a node in the house. How do we get it around the house more reliably? I don’t have a great understanding of WiFi so please use small simple words.

 

[Boysground]

All you need to know is in this thread, been running over the weekend

WiFi in old house

We’re struggling to get proper wifi round the old farmhouse. Presumably thick walls aren’t helping. Boosters don’t seem to make sufficient difference. Does it work to run the wifi through the house wiring or is that also going to struggle with the size of the property and distance involved...

thefarmingforum.co.uk

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[Jack Russell]

I sort of looked but didn’t see the glaringly obvious thread. Thankyou

 

[rollestonpark]

we have a fair size farm house with thick walls.
you need ethernet cables to 2/3 places around the house and put WIFI access points on the end of the ethernet, to do an area.
I managed to get quite decent coverage around our house using TP link omada access points.
Just 2 in fact, (thought I'd need more to be honest).
I used EAP620 HD access points by TP link, am pretty amazed by the coverage area.
I just put ethernet on the outside of the house with a Cat6 ethernet socket on each end (drill through the wall back to the inside). I put a cat6 socket at the router and another on the other end where I though the WIFI Acess point would be needed.
Use business grade access points, don't bother with the cheap home rubbish, the home grade stuff has the range to cover maybe 1 room and thats about it.

that's just my view/experience of it.