Hi all,
I recently switched ISPs to Be broadband. I've got there BeBox (thomson speedtouch 780 wl), but the wireless on it won't reach my room (1 floor up, 3 rooms down). That said the signal will reach the loft (2 floors up).
Anyhow, I purchased a 3com 3crwdr101a-75 to fix this problem (along with a a linksys speedbooster PCI card).
Here is my problem:
The speedtouch actually turned out to be more powerful than the 3com, with the 3 com having almost 1.5 times greater signal/noise ratio (using netstumbler).
I thought the 3com would demolish the BeBox, any ideas why thats not the case?
Can anyone recommend an ADSL 2+ router that has a long range (maybe an SPI firewall as well)?
Also the reason I mentioned my PCI card, although not made for range, does come with a pretty big antenna, and yet my centrino laptop can pickup more AP's than the card. Why is this? Any ideas on a long range PCI card I can buy?
Hopefully I can get this mess sorted within a week, because I've been trailing a 30m bright orange cat5 cable all through the house, and it doesn't look good
Thanks in advance everyone.
P.S. I'll probably sell the 3com on OCuk later as well, so keep a look out
I recently switched ISPs to Be broadband. I've got there BeBox (thomson speedtouch 780 wl), but the wireless on it won't reach my room (1 floor up, 3 rooms down). That said the signal will reach the loft (2 floors up).
Anyhow, I purchased a 3com 3crwdr101a-75 to fix this problem (along with a a linksys speedbooster PCI card).
Here is my problem:
The speedtouch actually turned out to be more powerful than the 3com, with the 3 com having almost 1.5 times greater signal/noise ratio (using netstumbler).
I thought the 3com would demolish the BeBox, any ideas why thats not the case?
Can anyone recommend an ADSL 2+ router that has a long range (maybe an SPI firewall as well)?
Also the reason I mentioned my PCI card, although not made for range, does come with a pretty big antenna, and yet my centrino laptop can pickup more AP's than the card. Why is this? Any ideas on a long range PCI card I can buy?
Hopefully I can get this mess sorted within a week, because I've been trailing a 30m bright orange cat5 cable all through the house, and it doesn't look good
Thanks in advance everyone.
P.S. I'll probably sell the 3com on OCuk later as well, so keep a look out
