Recommend me a budget friendly Access Point/Router

[lagauk]

Thinking of extending my home network to my garage at the bottom of the garden. I've already run the Cat5e cable (25 meters) to the garage from the house so it's now just a plug and play job hopefully. What's better or are they pretty much the same....a cheapo router or a slightly more expensive access point?

As this will be for the garage it's only a basic one that I'm after so don't need any mega speeds (although that would be nice) as I won't be gaming in there but a decent internet connection would be very useful. .

Something around the £20-£25 range is what I had in mind.

Recommendations gratefully accepted.

Cheers

Lag

 

[Joca]

I have a great wireless router for sale at moment that should suit your needs.
2.4 and 5 ghz
Ebay 202854007177

 

[Redboots]

Don't you already have a router? Presumably your new cable plugs into it...

Plug 'tother end into something like this:
dual-band-wifi-range-extender - lidl

 

[wessie]

this looks a cute little device https://www.tp-link.com/uk/home-networking/wifi-router/tl-wr702n/ - not used this device but the brand has been fine in the past

only £12.17 on Ebay

 

[topcat2006]

this looks a cute little device https://www.tp-link.com/uk/home-networking/wifi-router/tl-wr702n/ - not used this device but the brand has been fine in the past

only £12.17 on Ebay

I use these for a similar reason - a wifi network in my Shoffice. They have been fine for the last 5 years and I notice no difference of speed. I seem to recall dead easy to set up - just downloaded an app onto my.phone and used that. I'd buy them again.

 

[lagauk]

Thanks for the replies fellas. I'll check out some of the suggestions.

Have a great Xmas.

Cheers

Lag

 

[CliveS]

An alternative is to buy a router that has a WiFi "bridge" function inbuilt. Bridging will connect one router to another, via wifi, and simply extends the signal. You log on the the second, bridged, router and it then goes back to your main router thus extending the range. Mine are about 30 meters apart and work perfectly and extend my wifi range to about 60 meters.