This weekend consisted of me visiting a competitor twice and spending around 10 hours trying to get wireless signal into my room which is located in building that seems to be made of a similar material to that what is used in this:
I am on Sky Broadband using their Sagem router (54G) I only get signal in the living room (80% Signal to Noise) which is where the router is located. In the kitchen, located a mere 4-5m away and through a wall the signal drops to 40%. In my room which is located a further 2-3m away the signal drops to 5-10% (i.e no connectivity)
I tried using a Belkin wireless repeater in the kitchen but this only boost the signal in my room to about 10-20% with frequent disconnects.
I tried doing the LAN over electricity wires thing (dLAN) but the speeds I get are shocking: 150 kb/s on a reported network speed of 32mbit/s. (That was visit one to a competitor)
I have also purchase a new router to replace the Sagem. A Belkin Wireless N router (Visit two to a competitor) that that has a supposed range of 1,200 feet! What a pile of ****. Wireless connectivity in my room improved by 5% (which still not enough) even when using a Wireless N PCI card in my computer. So much for N draft 2.0.
At this point I was tearing my hair out but then I had an idea. If plug in my Sagem in the living room, then using the Belkin N Router in the Kitchen that might work. Lo a behold...the N Router offers a signal strength of 30-40% in my room. I will take it!
The problem is that I cant figure out how to turn the router into an access point for the Sagem router which is actually connected to the internet. Anyone have any ideas?
I have googled but have not come up with anything useful. I have tried to turn the DHCP server off, match subnets and the assign the N router an IP in a similar format to that issued by the sagem router (i.e 192.168.0.254)
PLEASE SOME ONE HELP ME!
I am on Sky Broadband using their Sagem router (54G) I only get signal in the living room (80% Signal to Noise) which is where the router is located. In the kitchen, located a mere 4-5m away and through a wall the signal drops to 40%. In my room which is located a further 2-3m away the signal drops to 5-10% (i.e no connectivity)
I tried using a Belkin wireless repeater in the kitchen but this only boost the signal in my room to about 10-20% with frequent disconnects.
I tried doing the LAN over electricity wires thing (dLAN) but the speeds I get are shocking: 150 kb/s on a reported network speed of 32mbit/s. (That was visit one to a competitor)
I have also purchase a new router to replace the Sagem. A Belkin Wireless N router (Visit two to a competitor) that that has a supposed range of 1,200 feet! What a pile of ****. Wireless connectivity in my room improved by 5% (which still not enough) even when using a Wireless N PCI card in my computer. So much for N draft 2.0.
At this point I was tearing my hair out but then I had an idea. If plug in my Sagem in the living room, then using the Belkin N Router in the Kitchen that might work. Lo a behold...the N Router offers a signal strength of 30-40% in my room. I will take it!
The problem is that I cant figure out how to turn the router into an access point for the Sagem router which is actually connected to the internet. Anyone have any ideas?
I have googled but have not come up with anything useful. I have tried to turn the DHCP server off, match subnets and the assign the N router an IP in a similar format to that issued by the sagem router (i.e 192.168.0.254)
PLEASE SOME ONE HELP ME!
