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Hello,
I have a 50mb Fibre Optic BB from Vigin. The router (Netgear WNR2000v2 - 300mbs N) is located at the front of my house (which is Victorian and quite long and narrow). The external cable arrives here so not to much choice of location although as its a seperate modem I could try and run a patch lead to bring the actual router closer to the centre of the building but its still going to be in the same room.
My office is down the bottom of the garden about 45m from the house. The wifi signal dies about 5m from the back of the house. In order to boost things I purchased a repeater (Sitecom Wireless Network Range Extender - 300N). This I needed to locate in an upstairs back window to provide enough signal to reach my office.
On my PC I have a dlink DWA-140 USB adapter. This I have run from a USB extension to position in the window of my office closest to the house. My signal is still poor but supposedly I am running at 81mbps.
The issue is that my web access is very slow. It took me 45 minutes to download a 50mb file this morning which from the laptop in the house takes well under 2 mins.
I was hoping someone with more networking knowledge than I can make some suggestions. I have a powerline network but I think the long run to the office is making that slow (and my router only has 10/100 wired connections so bottle neck the potential 200 the powerline might achieve)
Would upgrading the antenna on my extender help? The existing antenna are only 2dbi gain. Where can I get 802.11N antenna from everywhere I look they are B/G.
What about a better network adapter for the PC? What might work? My office is wooden but has foil lined insulation in the walls (28mm Wood, 70mm Insulation, 28mm wood) which is why I have moved the current adapter to the window.
Any suggestions gratefully accepted.
Andrew
I have a 50mb Fibre Optic BB from Vigin. The router (Netgear WNR2000v2 - 300mbs N) is located at the front of my house (which is Victorian and quite long and narrow). The external cable arrives here so not to much choice of location although as its a seperate modem I could try and run a patch lead to bring the actual router closer to the centre of the building but its still going to be in the same room.
My office is down the bottom of the garden about 45m from the house. The wifi signal dies about 5m from the back of the house. In order to boost things I purchased a repeater (Sitecom Wireless Network Range Extender - 300N). This I needed to locate in an upstairs back window to provide enough signal to reach my office.
On my PC I have a dlink DWA-140 USB adapter. This I have run from a USB extension to position in the window of my office closest to the house. My signal is still poor but supposedly I am running at 81mbps.
The issue is that my web access is very slow. It took me 45 minutes to download a 50mb file this morning which from the laptop in the house takes well under 2 mins.
I was hoping someone with more networking knowledge than I can make some suggestions. I have a powerline network but I think the long run to the office is making that slow (and my router only has 10/100 wired connections so bottle neck the potential 200 the powerline might achieve)
Would upgrading the antenna on my extender help? The existing antenna are only 2dbi gain. Where can I get 802.11N antenna from everywhere I look they are B/G.
What about a better network adapter for the PC? What might work? My office is wooden but has foil lined insulation in the walls (28mm Wood, 70mm Insulation, 28mm wood) which is why I have moved the current adapter to the window.
Any suggestions gratefully accepted.
Andrew
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