Wireless network help

aytch

Hi all
I have a wireless router, all set up and working a treat. My daughter has arrived home from uni and the signal is very low in the pit she calls her bedroom! I have a second router that arrived when I changed broadband providers, and she has a telephone point in her room that I could connect it to - would it work, can I have two on the go in the house?

Many thanks

Aytch

Oscar_The_Grouch

Hi there

Without going into the technical bits - no it won't. You can't have 2 routers connected to 1 telephone line in a house.

What you can do is the old "tin foil trick". Let's assume your house is a box. You have one wall that faces north, one that faces south and so on. Let's assume that your router is on the groud floor of the east wall and the "pit of dispair" is on the first floor west wall. The signal your router is trying to transmit has to go through every wall and ceiling in the house that is between your it and the "pit". The thing is, it's also trying to transmit a signal in every other direction too, including "down".

Unless you have a cellar, sending the signal down is a complete waste of time. You need to get that signal to go somewhere useful, so you put a 12" square of tin foil under the router. That blocks the signal going down and bounces it back up again.

Then what you need to do is think of every other direction that is completely useless to you and your household and put tin foil behind the router in that direction too. This should then increase the signal that's being sent to the useful areas of your house.

The biggest benefit is that this is completely temporary and as soon as the "pit of dispair" is cleansed, you can remove the foil and use it on your next roast dinner!!

I know I'm being flippant, but believe me; this does actually work

aytch

Thank you for taking the time to reply ..... I am unrolling the tin foil as soon as I have tapped this

TimothyEBaldwin

But you can connect the routers to each other using Ethernet cable. Telephone cable may also work (but no promises), of course it can't be connected to anything telephone related. See this guide:
http://forum.portforward.com/YaBB.cgi?num=1133918703

aytch

TimothyEBaldwin wrote: »

But you can connect the routers to each other using Ethernet cable. Telephone cable may also work (but no promises), of course it can't be connected to anything telephone related. See this guide:
http://forum.portforward.com/YaBB.cgi?num=1133918703

Thank you very much