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Wifi? Is it illegally illegal to post for a wifi problem on here????

Tomgunn
Hi all,


Hope everyone's coping well!! 


OK, I bought an amazing security camera... unbelievably amazing for... just under £20! It does everything like, day and night vision, (only turn off the infrared thing as I am using an indoor security camera to cover the outside and if you have that selected it'll show up as some 10 spotlights reflecting back from the double glazing), that is also amazing! You can speak, and listen via it, and it'll record 24/7 via a micro 32GB SD card and it wipes the first on when it's full it also records to the 'cloud', (wherever that is... I guess I'll find it - eventually?).


You can watch it on anything anywhere and it's a plug and play system, with a little inputting... ANYWAYS, yes... it's fantastic and it's called a NEOS Smartcam, ( it's also known under a few differnt names as well).


So, all is good, yeah? Well... not quite. You see it needs a wifi connection. Down here, in my 'office' it's FAB but when I site it in my bedroom window, to cover the close, the wifi is hardly present.


I have a BT wifi unit, (a socket that connects to the router and an outlet for my digi TalkTalk box). BUT, when I use another BT system, that sends my wifi around the wiring... it just won't work and I think it may clash with the one feeding TT's box???


So, what's the best way to get wifi in the bedroom? 


I've looked and looked around and I don't like 'extenders'... or something that sends MORE wifi around the house, albeit 'directional'... so peep's what to do? 


I could use an internet cable but the camera doesn't have any attachment for it to plug into so there would need to be a 'device' / something, that would emit the wifi.


OK, sorry for the looooong post, hopefully someone, as I KNOW - you're all very clever lads, (and lassessess ?), out there!!


regards... Tom



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    Hi and thanks to everyone, for their info!!!!!


    The last three are great too!!!!


    Plenty to work on and, believe me, I have spent hours' and hours' searching to find something that is suitable, and also with the 'wifi' as loads of them are, somewhat, confusing... cheers everyone!


    regards... Tom


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    There was also increasing evidence that since the move to electronic meters rather than the old electromechanical ones that Powerline extenders go way beyond ones home or other peoples homes to you.

    i.e. you could plug one device of a compatible type (by chance) into you home and instantly see your neighbours network ('free' internet)


    So from a network interference / security perspective you 'may' want to use a local cable also.

    The use of smart (electronic) meters may have improved the blocking of signals (as the old big coil meters did) but I doubt it.

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    The best for WiFi I have found is the BT Whole Home system. It consists of a number of repeaters, all with the same SSID (WiFi name) and password, that you place through the house. The main one connects by cable from the router, the others connect themselves wirelessly to the first one. We have four covering our guest house - three floors with the building constructed in 1906 so solid walls.The system hands WiFi connections between the discs based on signal strength, so in theory you connect to different repeaters as you walk round without realising. 


    Regards,


    Alan.
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    Andy88:

    There was also increasing evidence that since the move to electronic meters rather than the old electromechanical ones that Powerline extenders go way beyond ones home or other peoples homes to you.

    i.e. you could plug one device of a compatible type (by chance) into you home and instantly see your neighbours network ('free' internet)


    So from a network interference / security perspective you 'may' want to use a local cable also.

    The use of smart (electronic) meters may have improved the blocking of signals (as the old big coil meters did) but I doubt it.

     




    Hello Andy, well... there's a fing! Good stuff!!


    Back in, circa... 1979/80-ish? We used to be invited for drinks, across the road here, (it's a medium sized close with about 10 houses'... everyone know's everyone's business, haha PLUS, most of their 'secret's'... AND, we paid an OUTRAGEOUS price for this house, I mean it was a SCANDALOUS amount... £14,500!!!!!), and what we'd do, (it's the only time, three or four time, we did this... like on holiday's / anywhere, where WE went our kids WENT, (if you know what I mean?).


    Vicky is our first born, 1977, so she would be around three BUT, I would NEVER do this again, if I / we went back there!!!!


    I was in the electrical wholesalers and I bought a pair of plugs that you would plug into one plug and then put the other one into another plug and you could hear Vicky sleeping. The only reason, and as I have said, we'd never do this again, we would go over there was that I found that by plugging this 'plug' into Vicky's bedroom... and then plugging it into the neighbour's socket outlet we could hear Vicky was sleeping ok!! 


    Amazing little plug, (no, not Vicky, haha), but... I think we must have been on the same phase, as the other house, as I guess it wouldn't have worked?


    But now? We have soooo many devices that it's amazing but, I guess their's a 'price' to pay for these??


    Anyways, thanks again for the feedback and I'll come back, when I've sorted out what I end up with, hoping it'll help other's too!


      



     

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    Alan Capon:

    The best for WiFi I have found is the BT Whole Home system. It consists of a number of repeaters, all with the same SSID (WiFi name) and password, that you place through the house. The main one connects by cable from the router, the others connect themselves wirelessly to the first one. We have four covering our guest house - three floors with the building constructed in 1906 so solid walls.The system hands WiFi connections between the discs based on signal strength, so in theory you connect to different repeaters as you walk round without realising. 


    Regards,


    Alan. 




    Hello Alan, good advice but, I'm with TalkTalk, (actually... they've been AMAZING... for the past three years', wow! Who'd have thought that?), so I think that I couldn't use any of BT's equipment's?


    I think TT would probably do something similar so maybe look at what they offer and thanks for the advice!


    regards... 'Me', haha! ?  


     

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    You don’t need to be with BT to use them - as long as you have a spare Ethernet socket on your router they can be used. We don’t have BT on the island, but they work fine on Manx Telecom and will happily get any updates they need from BT. 


    Regards,


    Alan.
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    Alan Capon:

    You don’t need to be with BT to use them - as long as you have a spare Ethernet socket on your router they can be used. We don’t have BT on the island, but they work fine on Manx Telecom and will happily get any updates they need from BT. 


    Regards,


    Alan. 




    Hello Alan,


    Ok, I didn't know that, thanks!


    regards... Tom


     

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    Be aware that there are now 2 versions of the BT Whole home system (White disks)

    the original (thinner disks) - now cheaper on ebay, that use 2 radios (shares the 5GHz for the mesh)

    the newer (fatter disks) -  that use 3 radios (extra 5GHz for the mesh/disk to disk comms and separate one for the AP's to the PC's/devices etc)


    AFAIK they don't mix.


    There are also some 'black disks' that come with the BT Smart Hub 2, do a similar job but rely on the BT router (Smart Hub 2) as master but again not compatible.


    But a good system nonetheless

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    Don't use powerline adapters. The interference issue has already been explained. The latest high speed ones can interfere with DAB, FM, and air traffic control. If you don't think an interference source at ground level can interfere with 'planes thousands of feet high read this:

    https://www.ofcom.org.uk/about-ofcom/latest/features-and-news/interference-issue
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    GeorgeCooke:

    Don't use powerline adapters. The interference issue has already been explained. The latest high speed ones can interfere with DAB, FM, and air traffic control. If you don't think an interference source at ground level can interfere with 'planes thousands of feet high read this:

    https://www.ofcom.org.uk/about-ofcom/latest/features-and-news/interference-issue




    Hello George, (and Andy... good stuff!!).


    Good reading BUT, there's a Giraffe in the room!


    Now, ebee posted some interesting points, about the forthcoming 5G. 


    I know OMS is right and I have bought loads of bacofoil BUT, at 2.4Ghz shouldn't be too bad but, what about 5G as I have been following this over the past couple of weeks' and... there seem's to be a lot p worriers out there explaining that 5G will 'toast' everyone and... I would guess we'll have this in our homes' plus... the bedroom too.


    Anyone actually know about the dangers, (or not), with 5G?


    cheers me dears'... Tom 



     

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