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how to boost inter net signal??
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If your desktop PC is also upstairs (you didn't indicate whether or not it is – merely that it is at the other end of the house), the best, most reliable and cheapest way to connect it to your Buffalo router would be to run Cat5e or Cat6 Ethernet cable (of a suitable colour) up the corner of the room, through the ceiling, across the loft, through the ceiling of the other room and down the corner of that to the desktop.
If that is too traumatic, then powerline adaptors, as suggested by Fifer and silentbob09, provide the best technological solution.
Bear in mind, however, that each powerline adaptor consumes some 4.5 watts (according to Solwise) of power, silently and continuously; so (unless you turn them both off physically when you're not using the desktop PC) it's like leaving a low-energy light bulb running 24/7.
By the way, if anyone has tried the Gigabit powerline adaptors made by Belkin (and/or any other manufacturer?) which went on sale recently, it would be most interesting if they could post how well, and at what actual speed, they perform, in comparison to 200 mb/sec versions
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modem upstairs at front of house
pc down stairs at back of houseWAS DEBT FREE & STILL BAAARRRRRKING :cool:
hello my name is shaun,,,and im not so addicted to farmville,still addicted to football:o:o
BAAAARRRRRRRRRRKING er insanely so
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Bare in mind power line adaptors dont work best with extension leads and you want get the speeds they claim but in fairness you dont with broadband or wifi usually0
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CharlieBilly wrote: »Bare in mind power line adaptors dont work best with extension leads and you want get the speeds they claim but in fairness you dont with broadband or wifi usually
It's a fair point, but with 85mpbs powerline adaptors plugged into shared 4 plug multistrips at each end, I'm still getting much better than typical wireless g speeds.There's love in this world for everyone. Every rascal and son of a gun.
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And if the wireless router has internal antennae...?
(Like Apple's.)
Don't laugh at banana republics. :rotfl:
As a result of how you voted in the last three General Elections,
you'd now be better off living in one.
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Yeah. Still, trying it would provide a good excuse for stiff Cuba Libre before dinner.
In fact...now you've suggested it... :cool:
I think I'll log-out early, this evening. :beer:
:wave:
Don't laugh at banana republics. :rotfl:
As a result of how you voted in the last three General Elections,
you'd now be better off living in one.
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