Broadband - poor signal in certain rooms at home.

Hi,
Hoping you can help? We have a BT home hub 4.0 type A and use broadband regularly at home. Our home is in essence 'L' shaped and living in an old cottage with thick walls we really struggle for signal in specifically 2 rooms (each at the end of the 'L' shape) I want to increase the signal in these rooms but don't know how to?
I've seen the plug in adapters but worry how efficient they will be in an old build with old wiring? I've tried reading on the Internet but get a little lost - would anyone be able to offer some suggestions?? In these rooms I only need wifi signal for mobile devises, no hi-tech computers for gaming etc!!
I've tried moving the hub - but the result is always the same just different rooms have poor signal.
Thanks in advance.

Welcome to this forum.
BT have devices which will help  BT Connected Home
Broadband extenders (Powerline devices), normally work fine provided all your sockets are fed from the same distribution board.
There are some useful help pages here, for BT Broadband customers only, on my personal website.
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