Broadband/Wifi issues

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I'm of the older generation and struggling. My router (BT Home Hub 8) was in the study close to my pc and plugged into an extension socket. The phonewire ran round the room for 5 metres to a filter with phone and router connections, and that in turn went under the floor for 6 metres to the master phone socket. I initially used an ethernet cable to connect router to PC as it wasn't wifi-enabled, but my new pc is so I have been using the router on wifi. It was mostly okay, but whenever I had problems I was told it was too far from the master socket. We are having a new floor fitted, the floorcovering will be permanently fixed, so I wanted to find an alternative position for both phone and router.
The new position I chose was in an adjacent room, in the middle of the house, plugged into the master phone socket 1 metre away. It was useless on wifi. Slow speed. I was told it was because we have a metal filing cabinet in direct line between router and pc. So I spent £35 on BT Extenders that work through the house wiring, using ethernet cables to connect power unit to router, and PC to a socket. It is all worse. The speed is fixed at 100 mbps, no way of checking the signal strength to the router, but the relevant light on the Extenders is frequently red for "poor signal". I've tried moving it higher, lower, further away, no change. The blue light on the router doesn't change.
What am I doing wrong, and how can I improve the situation?
Madmeg
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Hi GG
Thanks for replying. No such thing as Infinity round here - we only get 12 channels on Freeview too and then only if we hang the aeriel out of the window! Mobile phones have similar issues.
First problem is I took advice from an "expert" and have now made alterations to the study room layout based on that advice.
Original set-up was 5 metre extension wire from master socket, under study floor to splitter/filter on study desk. Phone went into this, and router wire via another 6 metres to computer. Whenever we had problems the tut-tutters said the wiring was too long, and two extensions was two too many. And I did worry about having so much wiring under the floor. So to answer your first question, yes, I could do what you suggest but was told it wasn't good. Except the position where we had the router is now inaccessible but I could perhaps install a shelf for it.
New set up was to put the router closer to the master socket, but the transfer rate dropped from 72 mbps to I can't remember, but the result was poor, Hence we purchased the BT Extender 500 units to use the house wiring to transmit from router to computer. The result is worse, I can only assume that the router isn't getting a good signal in its new position. I've now tried about 20 combinations of postions for everything, and the best still seems to be the original set-up, long wires/double extensions, the lot, except, as said above, the original router position is inaccessible.
I will now have a look at the next person's reply. Many thanks, and I will bear it all in mind. I just don't understand why these new super-duper Extenders didn't do the job.