Topic: TSKB: Wireless Exenders

[twatts (pants are so over-rated...)]

OK.  So we are renting a house where my listening room is in the addition of the house.  It is separated from the rest of the house by the original brick exterior wall (its an addition) and has horrible wireless access via our house wireless network. 

How can I improve the reception of our laptop down there???  Nick Gregory recommend the Netgear Wireless Extensions, but I wanted to see what else was out there...

Thanks,

Terry

[Lil Kim Jong-Il]

ethernet over power may be a good solution for you.

http://netgear.com/Products/PowerlineNetworking/PowerlineEthernetAdapters.aspx

[Brian Skalinder]

How bad is the access?  None at all?  Slow and intermittent?  I had very slow and intermittent connectivity in the farthest room in my house from the wireless access point (Linksys WAP54g v2).  I installed a "hacked" firmware that enabled me to boost the signal.  Worked great.  Several of the Linksys wireless access points / routers have stable, hacked firmware that may be worth a go.  I assume other makes/models do, too, but don't know for certain.

[nickgregory]

ethernet over power may be a good solution for you.

http://netgear.com/Products/PowerlineNetworking/PowerlineEthernetAdapters.aspx
this is what I use

[twatts (pants are so over-rated...)]

ethernet over power may be a good solution for you.

http://netgear.com/Products/PowerlineNetworking/PowerlineEthernetAdapters.aspx

this is what I use

I couldn't remember what exactly you told me you had.  I'll look into this particular item!  Thanks again!

Terry

[Chilly Brioschi]

Be sure that you don't have a wireless interference issue.

Wireless cameras, cordless phones, baby monitors, and bunch of other stuff can mess with your wireless

[jbraveman]

I've used the linksys wireless range expander.  It was a pain to configure, but it did work well.

[Colin Liston]

I have a linksys and it works very well.  I sometimes have to reboot to get the laptop to connect, but overall I've been happy with it.

[cheshirecat]

You can put another wireless ap and run it in repeater mode, most support it.  You just sit that guy in the other room and as long as it gets some upstream reception you should be good to go.

[Lil Kim Jong-Il]

You can put another wireless ap and run it in repeater mode, most support it.  You just sit that guy in the other room and as long as it gets some upstream reception you should be good to go.

Does that cut your throughput in half?

[kindms]

Many wireless routers support WDS.

you can create a wireless backbone throughout a location as long as the router have a signal from one another

The apple airport extremes have it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Distribution_System

edited to add: it is a good idea to stick to one vendor, mixing flavors can cause issues. This actually came up today on a call and my boss gave me the heads up.

[Chilly Brioschi]

I just put a pair of Linksys Wireless Access Points in the yardsale...

[fozzy]

if the router supports DD-WRT you can install that in increase your signal strength via the system settings.

they generally are only at 30-50% power

[cheshirecat]

You can put another wireless ap and run it in repeater mode, most support it.  You just sit that guy in the other room and as long as it gets some upstream reception you should be good to go.

Does that cut your throughput in half?

No.  You just have to have a decent signal to the device as your signal will only be as strong as the weakest link.  For example if you have 2 devices, a pirmary and a repeater, the repeater will push out the SSID of the primary, but if the repeater only sees a 20% signal at 24mbps for example then even if you are connected to the repeater at 54Mbps, your speed will be limited to 24Mbps because the upstream uplink is running at a sub-rate.

With that said you should be able to position them so you're good to go.  The nice thing is that it uses a sing SSID so you can move seamlessly around the house without reconnecting to the different APs.