Virgin media power line boosters

[Stephenstephen1]

I have a weak signal in part of my house,I have looked at virgin media website and I can get pods for £8 a month but don’t see why I should pay that out,I have a hub 3 and m250 broadband speed and looking at e bay  I can get a powerline booster refurbished will this work ok on my virgin media setup

[Client62]

Any retail network kit will work fine and be easier to manage than the VM Hubs.

[Tudor]

Don’t know what make/model you are looking at, but the term ‘power line’ booster often refers to extending an Ethernet connection. Note, boost is totally the wrong term for WiFi regardless of what some vendors say. You cannot ‘boost’ WiFi, you can only extend the range of a WiFi signal. The target station should be no further away from the hub than the distance from the device to the hub. Also the device should not be in the same location as the target station, if it was it would only be receiving the same WiFi signal as the target device.

[Cardiffman282]

Just be clear that any exVM kit bought off ebay won't work as it requires VM activation.