How can I extend Wi-Fi to the other side of my house?

Stephen has finally got fast broadband installed, but the Wi-Fi signal doesn't reach his home office. What's the solution?

I've just switched from slow ADSL broadband, where the router was outside my office, to fast Virgin broadband, where the router is on the other side of the house. Unfortunately, my computer is struggling to pick-up the Wi-Fi signal. In the past, I've tried Wi-Fi extenders from Netgear and Belkin but not had much luck with them. I found that if I placed them where they got a strong enough signal, they didn't actually extend the signal much further. Will Google's Wi-Fi mesh routers be the solution, and if so, do you know of any routers like that that can be bought in the UK? Stephen

Wi-Fi is never as fast, and never as reliable, as a wired internet connection. In the old days, before DECT and mobile phones, many people had wires running to landline phones, and it's still not that hard to do with bulkier Cat5E (E for "enhanced") or Cat6 cable. Cat6A can deliver 10 gigabits per second over 100 metres of Ethernet cable, which would solve the speed problem for the foreseeable future.