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Actually, all this talk of wifi has just reminded me of something I meant to ask the list. In my rarely-seen benevolent mode (I do actually have one, believe it or not) I promised to help out a friend who has just moved into a hostel for young at-risk people. The place is unsurprisingly run on a shoestring budget and being quite large (approx 15 rooms on three floors), and made with very solid old fashioned walls and hefty firedoors everywhere, the wifi signal from the crappy Sky-supplied Sagecom router/modem barely reaches beyond the single room where it happens to be installed. Before I even start on sorting out their network and access controls in general, I initially need to boost the signal throughout the entire property. Now normally when I do this it's at businesses who happily splash out on big expensive gear - often with a Cisco badge on it - that I'm quite familiar with but this is a different environment from what I'm used to. Their budget is effectively zero but I don't mind spending some of my own cash to get a TP-link repeater or something, which I'd rather do than muck about with cantennas and tinfoil for a DIY solution. So anyone got some good, concrete recommendations for consumer level gear to this purpose, preferably something that you've used yourself successfully? I initially thought to replace the router's aerial with a proper one but sadly the Sagecom only has an internal aerial, so it would probably be more trouble than it's worth. I also had a look through my box of old/spare wifi routers to see if any of them could be repurposed but annoyingly not one of them offers the functionality (I thought it was supposed to be common?) or supports reflashing with a decent firmware like Tomato, etc. Much obliged for any suggestions. Regards -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq