Apologies - I’m a huge chimp when it comes to this sort of thing!

I live in a home that has a basement that I use for an office. Currently, I’m running a powerline from my Virgin Media Broadband Router upstairs in the lounge to the basement - it’s working quite well, getting speeds of around 70-100mb from a gigabit connection. However, the basement is a dead area for Wifi, so my thinking was, if I buy a wifi router, can I plug it into the powerline in the basement, and therefore give me some degree of Wifi? Or is this just wishful thinking?!?! I’ve tried using several wifi extenders and none of it really seems to hit the spot.

I hope all of this makes sense! Thanks for reading.

  • Kryten@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Yes. You can have (more or less) as many WiFi access points connected to your network as you want. You will want a WiFi access point OR a WiFi router that can be set to “bridge mode”.

    There are some considerations for this kind of set up. Mainly, I would have the two WiFi networks have different SSID (names). If they are the same there can be issues of your devices trying to hold onto the signal from the WiFi access point that actually has a worse connection.

    Edit. There are some solutions that can do a mesh WiFi network with nodes connected over Ethernet, but I am not sure how well that would work over power line.