My BT Home Hub (version 1) is located in my hallway, adjacent to master socket, and ideal for maximum strength signal in home office and high strength everywhere else in the house. Shortly however the pergola project in the garden will be undertaken and with it somewhere shady for the missus to take her laptop or even for me to take mine to work from if I so wish.
The fly in the ointment is that the pergola will be at the far end of the garden where Home Hub reception is weak and too unstable for reliable VPN.
I proved today however that my trusty old Netgear DG834G (version 1) when sited in the conservatory allows a full strength signal at the far end of the garden. Crucially, so-sited it also gives a high strength signal everywhere inside the house, so allowing seamless walking around if connected to this SSID.
Unfortunately the DG834Gv1 does not support WDS or any form of bridging so I cannot wirelessly link it to the Home Hub.
I therefore have a choice:
- Put the DG834G back in the drawer and buy another wireless router that does support bridging (even a second version 1 Home Hub purchased via ebay or similar will do it according to http://212.159.96.35/hits/hhbridge.htm)
- Buy a couple of ethernet-over-mains adapators (say 85Mbps) to connect Home Hub to DG834G (with DHCP switched off) in wired manner.
Given that the Netgear signal is strong everywhere so having a wireless bridge is apparently irrelevant, my leaning is to the latter, probably with adaptors from Netgear (my usual supplier of choice from good experience) or Devolo (recommended by friends)
Advice from fellow PPRuNers?
Cheers,
XV105
[Edited for typo]
[Edited again to say I laughed after posting on seeing the advert below my post for a homeplug twin pack!]