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<blockquote data-quote="Llew" data-source="post: 853057" data-attributes="member: 175007"><p>My brother recently moved into a care home in Peterborough, which advertised as having WiFi access to all rooms. It's a new home, fully wired with Ethernet sockets in the rooms and WiFi range extenders dotted about the building - it's a large complex.</p><p></p><p>However, the WiFi reception is abysmal in his room, even with a Netgear extender facing his room pushing out 2G and 5G signals. I've been travelling back and forwards for a couple of weeks trying to get something working - I needed to sit under the thing with a tablet to keep a connection without it dropping out.</p><p></p><p>I contacted the home's manager to ask if the Ethernet distribution system is up and working, and he said don't plug anything into the socket as it may not be wired correctly (!). He's going to contact the IT firm who installed the system to hopefully get it up and running ASAP. Apparently they have a 100Mb pipe running to the home from the care home headquarters nearby, so this should do nicely with, e.g., video calling to me back home with Skype.</p><p></p><p>My question is, in place of having a LAN cable permanently connected to my brother's Nexus tablet ( via the BobjGearEthernet adaptor), has any member had any experience with a WiFi a travel router or some such, to set up a WiFi access point in, for instance, a hotel room? Are they any good?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Llew, post: 853057, member: 175007"] My brother recently moved into a care home in Peterborough, which advertised as having WiFi access to all rooms. It's a new home, fully wired with Ethernet sockets in the rooms and WiFi range extenders dotted about the building - it's a large complex. However, the WiFi reception is abysmal in his room, even with a Netgear extender facing his room pushing out 2G and 5G signals. I've been travelling back and forwards for a couple of weeks trying to get something working - I needed to sit under the thing with a tablet to keep a connection without it dropping out. I contacted the home's manager to ask if the Ethernet distribution system is up and working, and he said don't plug anything into the socket as it may not be wired correctly (!). He's going to contact the IT firm who installed the system to hopefully get it up and running ASAP. Apparently they have a 100Mb pipe running to the home from the care home headquarters nearby, so this should do nicely with, e.g., video calling to me back home with Skype. My question is, in place of having a LAN cable permanently connected to my brother's Nexus tablet ( via the BobjGearEthernet adaptor), has any member had any experience with a WiFi a travel router or some such, to set up a WiFi access point in, for instance, a hotel room? Are they any good? [/QUOTE]
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