Recommend a cheap wireless access point for my room?

[snow patrol]

Hi all,

I've moved into a place where the virgin media hub is upstairs. I've run an ethernet cable down to my switch in my room, from which i connect my pc / tv. However, the wifi (for my phone) is really rubbish and often cuts out.

Can I simply connect a WAP to the switch in my room and get wifi from that? If so, is it fine to just get a super inexpensive one? (it's literally just for my phone).

Cheers!

 

[Werewolf]

Any one should be fine, even an old router if you can turn off the DHCP server, a lot have an "access point" function, as long as you remember to connect to the LAN port on the router you're using

I'm currently using two old routers with DHCP turned off to extend the wifi network from my main router.

The only thing I would say is try to make sure you get an access point/router with a reasonably recent version of the wifi standard, I need to replace one of mine as it was a £20 Belkin job that I bought ~10 years ago and it's not up to the task with modern phones/tables (IIRC only one radio vs the 2-6 that are common now).

 

[snow patrol]

great, many thanks!

 

[snow patrol]

just as a little update: i connected an old talktalk adsl wireless router to my switch, followed a short online guide and it's all working great. Thanks for the suggestion as you saved me 30 odd quid