Trying to improve WiFi without spending a fortune or replacing everything.
I’ve got the standard Vodafone router roughly in the middle/front half of the house. There’s a Tapo doorbell near the front entrance and a Tapo camera at the back of the house.
Both work, but the WiFi connection gets pretty weak at the far ends.
I also have a Tapo H200 hub. I tried connecting the hub wirelessly and placing it between the router and the back camera, but every so often it loses connection to the router and starts blinking red. So for now I’ve gone back to keeping it wired.
Would a couple WiFi extenders actually be reliable for this?
Or is there a better way to improve coverage at the front and back without getting into a really expensive setup?
I’d avoid buying two extenders straight away. If the H200 itself can’t maintain a stable wireless connection where you’re putting it, that’s already telling you something about the coverage. An extender still needs decent WiFi to work with. Putting one where the signal already sucks doesn’t magically create a good connection.
@According_Grass_45 Yeah that’s basically what worries me. I was thinking one extender near the front and another toward the back, but I don’t really want to buy them and discover they’re just repeating the same weak signal.
Don’t buy anything yet, plan everything out first. Take a floor plan and upload it to NetSpot Planning — tweak the APs or mesh nodes there , check the coverage. The main thing is to find one central point that can reach both the door and the rear camera. They’ve even introduced multi-story options now, by the way, so if you have multiple floors, that’s a real bonus. Maybe you can get by with just one decent node instead of installing a repeater on each device.
If you can get Ethernet to one central location, I’d do that and install a wired AP.
Also, don’t put a wireless extender right beside the back camera if the signal is already bad there.
@BluejayKitchen19 hat’s literally where I was planning to put it 
@npc.with.attitude Classic extender trap. It needs a decent signal to repeat in the first place.