WLAN router repeater????

Ok, basically i m very confuse with this, I know how does a router function and how a repeater functions but i havent tried out how could repeater functions when it's in the weakspot of a router.

Like say our condition is like this:
Router in room, weak signal outside the door of the room(door closed), i place a repeater there. (The placing is locked, like if u advice me of placing the repeater inside the room, it wouldnt work since my room is small enuf for the router to work perfectly)

Question:
Since i already have weak signal outside the room, wouldnt the repeater have weak signal oso? Resulting poor performance? Or the weak signal is actually a medium signal for the repeater.

I throw in this dumb q coz i m thinkin of getting a repeater, but i dun wan to waste my money if the repeater doesnt improve anything...

 

First off, I believe you are speaking of a wireless access point (WAP) and a wireless repeater. The repeater will regenerate the signals it recieves and relay them on with new strength, just as if the WAP were sitting where the repeater is. Now that being said, here's the catch. Say the signal strength from the WAP to the repeater is only strong enough to achieve a 3mbps rate, then the data relayed back to the WAP from the repeater will only be at 3mbps.

I think that answers your question.

 

How is the compatibility with the repeater? I have got a cheap AP that doesn't have much configuration settings. Let say if I go down the shop and buy a repeater now, do I only need to have the WEP key or do I need to configure my AP to find the repeater and allow it to relay the signal?

 

It may not be the wrt, it may be your card. If its a raylink 2500, its range is only about 10 and it still drops connection.

 

Anyone can answer my question or have bought a repeater?

 

A repeater takes the AP (radio) signal and boost the signal (relay). Setup is similar to a AP. You have to tell it which AP to boost and give it the WAP key.

Example: At you door you only have 2 bars for strength. You setup the repeater there, The signal now is back up to 5 bars.

With repeater you can have large lags, due to the process.

Compatability should not be a issue, only the 11g (54mbps) works.

 

It sounds good, but too bad I'm on 11mbps network. I wanted to get a repeater because I wanted to save money as my AP does not have the option to bridge another AP and I don't want to buy 2 new AP so that they can bridge each other.

Hmm I don't think it can get that laggy more than 150ms? if it does its okay as I have my gaming pc on wired network.

 

If the signal strenth between Router/AP and the Repeater is weak you will get slow response times - basically take your laptop outside the room, you get two bars, thats most likely what the repeater is going to get and REPEAT to your other clients @ full strength. eg.
54mb Wireless Router/AP | <-(wall) (now 11mb since signal strength decreased) > AP Install (recieved @ 11mb outside wall) > Clients (shown 54mb connection to repeater, but only receiving the 11mb connecion to the router) -
Compared to - E.g. - 54mb Router/AP > (no wall) repeater (receiving 54mb signal)(4 - 5 bars)> clients recieve 54mb to repeater and then to router - less laggy (still some lag there)
response time chance varied up connection / signal strength -
It would be good enough to browse the internet / email - I wouldn't use it for gaming -

 

What I should do is get the repeater as far as possible from the router but make sure it stays around 4/5 bar. I'm not very concern about the latency as I rarely play any fps games now.

I was more concerned about compatibility eg the router/AP needs to have the option to use a repeater. Since blue68f100 have mentioned that you only need to tell it which AP/router you want to boost and give the wep key. Because I've checked both the router which I've got and it doesn't have a repeater option. So I thought I will need to buy a AP that have that option and a repeater.

All is good now