Extending wireless range in the home?

espresso

richyrichuk wrote: »

sorry sorry, just realised what i put. my heads not on. sound like a rite muppet now

frivolous_fay

We have a BT Home hub downstairs, and two PCs with belkin wireless doodahs upstairs. Our signal strength is excellent, but we have come to the conclusion that whenever one of our neighbours turns on their wireless, we get shunted off ours. Very irritating!


We're giving this a try http://www.netgear.com/Products/PowerlineNetworking/PowerlineEthernetAdapters/XE103.aspx?detail=Specifications

Anyone tried anything similar?

espresso

frivolous_fay wrote: »

We have a BT Home hub downstairs, and two PCs with belkin wireless doodahs upstairs. Our signal strength is excellent, but we have come to the conclusion that whenever one of our neighbours turns on their wireless, we get shunted off ours. Very irritating!

Why don't you try changing the wireless channel? You need to find out what channel your neighbour is using (probably the same as you - default) and change to one as far away as possible in the range 1-13.

frivolous_fay

espresso wrote: »

Why don't you try changing the wireless channel? You need to find out what channel your neighbour is using (probably the same as you - default) and change to one as far away as possible in the range 1-13.

TBH, we're just desperate to get off wireless - we're only using it because having the homehub on the upstairs extension in our new house meant a 500kbish connection :shocked: ... out of a potential 8mb contract which we can't cancel - having moved from our flat which got speeds of 6mbish (Don't get me started about the idiocy of BT tech help) Moving the hub appears to have got us up to 3mb.

The two wireless adapters are very slightly different. One works with its own drivers, the other crashes certain applications when you do, so has to be run with windows settings. Neither are able to connect on their own without spoonfeeding :rolleyes:

GIVE ME A SOLID AND DECENT CONNECTION AGAIN ARGHGHGH

Omertron

frivolous_fay wrote: »

GIVE ME A SOLID AND DECENT CONNECTION AGAIN ARGHGHGH

The only way, IMO, that you will get that is to be wired into your router.

It's what I did with the 4 PCs in our house as it's the only way I could guarantee connectivity. A 30M patch cable can be had on Ebay for under £8, that should reach anywhere in your house, and with careful cable management you'll probably never see it.