DomainLore Auction WifiBooster.co.uk (+ .uk rights) (40,500 GKT exacts)

Edwin · Feb 26, 2016

WifiBooster.co.uk is on auction at DomainLore.

Gets 40,500 exacts on Google Keyword Tool, and it's the top suggestion as soon as you start to type the "wif" of "wifi" into Google search!

£50 start, no reserve. Ends Tuesday evening.

https://domainlore.uk/auctions/gems_id/13485

martin-s · Feb 27, 2016

Interesting article in the papers this week about wifi boosters:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolo...-device-will-make-your-wifi-ten-times-faster/

It's an area of tech which has always been a bit tricky for the layperson to understand, but this sort of stuff could mean that it's set to take off?

It's on my to-do list, as our walls are all solid and we struggle for a signal in a few rooms.

Edwin · Feb 27, 2016

Looks like a decent attempt at an "average person" solution, by providing hardware that is essentially plug in and forget... It's always been possible to boost Wifi using specialised boosters and/or multiple routers but the concept was relatively complicated. I think I saw another company coming out with a similar product, so maybe that's a new trend...

(If you think about it, this sort of simplification happened with things like streaming video - used to have fairly complex boxes, then slightly simpler boxes, and now you have Apple TV, Amazon Fire Stick and Google Chromecast which just about anyone can cope with)

BTW, you can see this all ties in with a rising interest in "wifi booster" on Google Trends...
https://www.google.co.uk/trends/explore#q=wifi booster

martin-s · Feb 27, 2016

The other thing I like about that solution is how easy it is to invite people onto the network - which is normally a pain in the ass!

Edwin · Feb 27, 2016

martin-s said:
The other thing I like about that solution is how easy it is to invite people onto the network - which is normally a pain in the ass!

If I hadn't already solved our dead spots with a pair of Asus RT-N66U it's something I might have considered, since there's only one thing to dislike about it: the price!

Anyway, thanks for the link - I'll keep an eye on it to see if it gradually gets cheap enough to recommend to non-geeky people.