Best way to extend / clone home wifi please?

[Ninjabob]

IMO range extenders are a waste of time I've never had any luck with them, power line links work OK but are susceptible to interference, plug a switch mode PS (what most transformers are these days) near them and it kills them.

A Mesh system is the best option, one of the cheaper ones the TP Link M5 works well and easy to set up.
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This is the way to go - extenders are not very effective.

 

[Coolcats]

It not for everyone but this works (its a Mesh network and you just use your same log in for all devices) and if doesn't work they give you £100

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[Lenny HB]

Not sure why that happens. My PC is wired into a node (not direct to the modem router) and can talk to everything else connected to the mesh whether wirelessly or wired. My external Ring cameras are hard wired to local nodes inside the house (in order to use POE connection) but they can be picked up wirelessly by my phone and my wired in PC.

Probably because your hard wired items are to the WAN and not the LAN.

 

[peterc10]

Probably because your hard wired items are to the WAN and not the LAN.

Not sure what you mean, The mesh forms a LAN, not a WAN. The WAN port is on the back of the modem and links to the internet

 

[AJM2]

Like others I never had any joy with plug extenders. I have an Orbi 50 system now which works very well in the house. Prior to that I bought a second hand Motorhome wifi system that worked well in both the house(found my router easily) and the Motorhome when out and about.

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[Lenny HB]

Not sure what you mean, The mesh forms a LAN, not a WAN. The WAN port is on the back of the modem and links to the internet

The mesh is on a different IP range so it is acts as a WAN, e.g. my router is in the range 192.168.1.xx, where the Mesh is 192.168.68.xx

 

[kevenh]

The mesh is on a different IP range so it is acts as a WAN, e.g. my router is in the range 192.168.1.xx, where the Mesh is 192.168.68.xx

I'd call that two local networks. Or VLANs
WAN is a large network. Bigger than the subnet ranges in the examples above

 

[Lenny HB]

I'd call that two local networks. Or VLANs
WAN is a large network. Bigger than the subnet ranges in the examples above

OK it is another LAN but for all intense & purpose it is the same as a WAN to the router.