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My son is having WiFi issues in his bedroom upstairs despite me having an extender.

The router is in the middle room downstairs next to an older set top box and my tv is in the front room with the new TiVo box.

The router connects to a powerline adapter and the other adapter is connected to the front room tv etc

My question is can I take the power line adapter from the front room and move it upstairs to my sons bedroom.

TIA

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Simple answer: Try it and see. it should work.

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Thanks

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I am not an electricy minded person but I think someone has said before that different floors in a house run on different rings so whilst the adapters may work fine on the same ring downstairs, if you move one upstairs it may not work because it is on a different ring.

What you could do is move the shub next to the tv in the front room and then run a patch cable out the wall, up the side of the house and back in again and place a second router upstairs serving as a switch and wireless access point. I have done the same thing the other way around. We have got coax dropping down the side of the house for VM and Sky anyway so I got an electrician to drill another whole in the wall and now I have got a third cable drop going in to the sitting room to a router for downstairs which the tv, bluray player and sky box connect to.

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Thank you

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I use TP-Link power line adaptors and find they work fine across 2 ring mains, although they connect slightly slower than when on the same ring. An older adaptor (unknown make) hardly works at all though. As suggested try it and see. If it works OK you can buy a second adaptor to reconnect the TV.

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Thank you