wireless router

Fairwinds

What are the limitations of a wireless router as far as wall thicknesses are concerned?

We have friends who still have dial up (eek)! and would like to go wireless broadband, but don't think it would work in their stone built cottage with 18inch walls ( also 2 houses into one so "internal" wall may be thick.

Is there any way I can check whether it would work before purchasing. They also tell me wireless phones don't work.

Any advice appreciated

pcombo

Could probably get a wireless N router then get a bigger antenna + some wireless access points placed in the house.

exup

you could check by taking a wireless router around and just seeing if you can get a signal from it - It doesnt have to be connected to the internet for you to be able to connect to the router. You could also try various places around the house. Apart from walls, anything that contains water can block the signals from wireless routers. At extremes this could be people blocking the signal depending on where they are sat. A closet full of clothes in the way.
Testing a network once (which extended outside) during Winter, we found problems during summer simply down to a small tree which had sprouted a thick canopy of leaves and blocked the signal

debitcardmayhem

Homeplug or other ethernet via power line might be a better option

Fairwinds

exup wrote: »

you could check by taking a wireless router around and just seeing if you can get a signal from it - It doesnt have to be connected to the internet for you to be able to connect to the router.

So if i took my router down I should be able to connect to it, via my laptop (even though there would be no broadband connection

closed

Yes, you should see it in the available wireless networks list, and be able to login to the router config screen, but won't be able to browse the net

macman

Powerline networking/Homeplug is the obvious way to go in this type of property.

Bikertov

You have not said of there is any possibility of cabling ?

Sounds obvious, but it you can cable, it is always going to get you a better and more reliable connection that wireless - especially in a stone cottage !