Right-ho. Upgrade your router, wi-fi client or both

This often happens if you have a lot of metal in your house, funnily enough. Luckily mine is all wooden floorboards / beams and actually but even in my house at first I could only get a signal if I was on the ground floor (a big single room where the router is positioned), in my "study" on the first floor which is right about the router, next to the stairs and with no door separating it, and an incredibly weak signal if I were to be on the 2nd floor hovering right over the stairs.

Upgrading the router was too painful (would have to reinstall it all) so I bought a more powerful client (as in USB stick / PCMCIA card / PCI card). Straight away I had great reception all over the house, and even on the roof terrace which is outside (obviously) on the 2nd floor.

Posted By: Steve in Holland on May 22nd 2008 at 19:37:28

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Anyone know much about Wireless? I can get it to work when it's next to the router (General Chat) - pants, May 22, 19:31:04
- Right-ho. Upgrade your router, wi-fi client or both (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, May 22, 19:37:28
  - Helpful though, this did work on the ground floor and I'm a bit puzzled (General Chat) - pants, May 22, 19:45:20
    - Average indoor reach is 35m but I don't believe that (n/m) (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, May 22, 19:54:41
  - not really knowing what I'm doing (General Chat) - pants, May 22, 19:40:57
    - Oh I didn't bother with the aerial (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, May 22, 19:54:19
      - Best I can get where I need is is 22% (General Chat) - pants, May 22, 20:07:38
        
        my card supports the g thing too (General Chat) - pants, May 22, 20:09:04
        
        hmmm, dunt like Belkin (General Chat) - blindasabat, May 22, 20:13:06
        
        We've got a belkin, install was easy for me, did die on us though (General Chat) - megson, May 23, 09:17:25
        
        cheers meggers (General Chat) - pants, May 23, 10:22:41
        
        Thanks for the advice though (General Chat) - pants, May 22, 20:20:58
        
        oops, meant for sih (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, May 22, 20:23:12
  - PS... (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, May 22, 19:39:56

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