So our house has this problem where the router is upstairs in the corner and I am a little more centered but towards the back of the house. My signal is pretty weak (hovers around 30% with 1-2 bars), and due to this I keep having to move around my antennas for my wireless card just to get some spurt of speed. For Christmas, I was thinking of asking for a range extender, because although I will be graduating from school in May and moving out of the house, I figured I could use it afterwards to *cough* borrow someone else's WiFi for the time being. Anyway, does this sound like something I should be looking at asking for? Our router is a WRT-310N, and although it has DD-WRT installed, it hasn't been doing much of anything to help, and the guys in the house refuse to move it because the last time we did it caused the connection to continuously drop. Any suggestions? Thanks!
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The extender would be nice. I'd ask for a Powerline adapter. It's about $100 but it is immensely more useful IMO. Maybe too much in your case though.
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Belkin's Gigabit: The product claims 300 mbps, but the magazines results yielded somewhat less at 112-157 mbps. Still, that's more than enough to net a stable highspeed connection for full HD video. The magazine rated it 81 (very good). That unit list for $150 -
I have the Netgear Powerline at my place. It's good stuff.
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I had the similar trouble, went the linksys range extender route and it can help but it also adds more work when you change settings.
The easy things actually worked well and that is what I use.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnV9D7p4Fyo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOBfxbpxosA
If you want to pick up signals from a distance then you might look at:
1. BlueProton GSKY Wireless G 500mW Adapter
2. Senao EnGenius EUB362 adapter
3. Alfa USB 500mW WiFI Adapter
With the Alfa being rated the best in most of the credible reviews I have read, -
EDIT: Oh, and I would prefer something that allows Wireless N like my router for the best use. -
Whatever happened to the idea of a wireless repeater? Isn't this the perfect scenario for one?
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Heh. I use a craptastic WRT300n with DD-WRT as a repeater for my wireless N network. Sure, it limits the network speed to 150mbps from 300mbps, But I rarely use the network for file transfers (got an ethernet cable for that), so thats not very important for me.
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I use a ENGENIUS ECB3500
Its a b/g type repeater and it works well
They also make a N type model number ECB9500
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I'll have to check it out. How much was it?
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I vote a repeater, see my post here. I haven't worked with them, but Hawking is a good place to look for inexpensive high gain stuff.
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This Wi-Fire sounds very interesting, and quite inexpensive. I may have to strongly consider it, because I am getting pretty frustrated with the slow speeds I experience downstairs! Thanks a lot!
Range Extender for Xmas?
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by Ridley23, Nov 26, 2009.