Is the super booster device as good as it says in the advertisement
Which advertisement?
Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2020 2:50pm
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Movingon wrote on Mon Apr 13, 2020 2:43pm:
Which advertisement?
The super booster advertisement, I guess.
Kush
Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2020 6:06pm
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My experience with a Datalink AV1000 is excellent. Rather than over the air it transmits the signal over the mains.
Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2020 6:29pm
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killjoy wrote on Mon Apr 13, 2020 6:06pm:
My experience with a Datalink AV1000 is excellent. Rather than over the air it transmits the signal over the mains.
I have to admit my interest in this post was superficial to start with, and my reply to movingon was more than a tad facetious due to the nature of his question to the OP but now having read your comment I am intrigued. Can I ask you to elaborate killjoy ? Specifically on the way transmitting with your device gives better results I may follow your lead (no pun intended).
Cheers Kush
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Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2020 9:02pm
killjoy wrote on Mon Apr 13, 2020 6:06pm:
My experience with a Datalink AV1000 is excellent. Rather than over the air it transmits the signal over the mains.
Killjoy, am also intrigued by this system, does it work with any network and ariel?
Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2020 9:53pm
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You can not "boost" the speed of download/upload to/from the internet by hardware installed in the house. Only the ISP and the owner of the hardware used to get the internet to your house, can do that.
What these "boosters" really do is enable you to setup additional wifi "hotspots" around the house, perhaps in places that the main wifi base station can't reach too well.
Some of these work over the air, some via the mains cables.
Over the air...
Your main wifi base station sends out a signal. Your devices pick this up. Also an over the air "booster", or extender to use a more accurate terms picks it up too. These extenders send the signal out again, over the air, but with a bit more oophm. Think of these over the wire extenders as little wifi pumps that helps the wifi reach places it'd have difficulty getting to on it's own.
IMO these are a bit rubbish.
Next you have the ones that work over the main cables. Typically called "powerlines" or for some weird reason "home-plugs". These are pretty cool. I use these. I've about twenty of them all over the house, garden and garage, so I can get the best possible wifi speed everywhere. I work from home so I've also got my own wifi network, which gets priority over the other networks, meaning my work machines get all the bandwidth they need; so if the internet slows down, all the other devices go slow, but not mine. Hehe :-)
The way these things work is you plug one into a wall socket near the router and connect an ethernet cable from the router into it. What you are now doing is taking your internet over a wired connection to the wall socket, then turning your electric cables in the walls into ethernet cables, and so all your sockets into ethernet out sockets.
Lets say you want to connect your Smart TV to the internet via the powerlines. You just take another powerline plug, stick it into the wall socket near your TV, plug an ethernet cables into it and the other end into the TV. Boom. Your TV is now connected via ethernet cable, not wifi.
As as well plugging devices into the powerlines using cables, you can also get powerlines that take the internet from the electric cables and turns it into a mini wifi signal. The wifi served out by these is typically as fast as the wifi direct from your base station, and because you can put these mini-wifi powerlines in each room, there is little to no drop out.
There are caveats...
1. If your house has old wiring, forget it. You need good wiring, I'd suggest 15years or younger.
2. If your house is wired over separate fuse boxes it's not unusual for the ethernet bit to not work over these different systems, even though the electricity does.
3. When you plug in new hardware into a powerline the whole thing can throw a hissy fit and your internet stops. So, you have to turn everything (EVERYTHING) off and slowly reboot the entire network.
I use these: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0746HVPMC/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1&tag=cstareg-21 After trying out lots I found them the best.
Here is a picture giving you a visual guide to how these things work: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/614KvR43IAL._AC_SL1500_.jpg?tag=cstareg-20
To give you an idea of how good these things are, this my is setup...
- Internet comes into base station.
- Ethernet out of base station to first powerline plugged into wall.
- In my office there is a wifi powerline. Two iMacs running 24/7 are connected to it via ethernet. There are another two iMacs, two Macbooks and about seven smartphones connected over wifi. (this is my private network, only these devices get on it).
- In the hall there is another wifi powerline which extends the regular network.
- In the garden there are two wifi powerlines: One for the regular network, one for my work network.
- Garage there is one wifi powerline.
- Dotted around the house are about 13 regular powerlines with CCTV's plugged into them via ethernet, these all connect to one of the imacs in the office and forms the CCTV system (I'm, a bit of a security freak!).
It's a pretty bonkers setup, and in theory really shouldn't work, but thanks to the wonders of internet over electrical cables, it does.
Excuse typos, I'm rushing!
Think I will have to copy and print that for future reference. Thank you.
Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2020 10:45pm
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Wow excellent info, I wish you were in Campoverde I would ask you round for a cerveza or 2 when this current situation is sorted, to hook us up with some of that tech.
Cheers Kush 🌺
Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2020 8:27am
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Kush wrote on Mon Apr 13, 2020 10:45pm:
Wow excellent info, I wish you were in Campoverde I would ask you round for a cerveza or 2 when this current situation is sorted, to hook us up with some of that tech.
Cheers Kush 🌺
If I was local I'd be more than happy, but it's looking like Nov til my next trip!
But really, so long as all you want to do is extend your existing network using the same network name and long in details etc. it's really just to do yourself. With the hardware I use you just plug one into a socket by the router, connect an ethernet cable, plug the wifi powerline into another socket, where your existing wifi fails to reach. Press and hold a button for about ten seconds and that's it, sorted.
If you want to more, like separate out the networks, give one priority over the other, and so on, it's a bit more complex and you need to be able to log into the Powerline itself via it's IP address, but even that's not too hard.
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