Can I boost my signal?

monkai666

monkai666

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I'm not sure if I've phrased that right, but the situation is that I've moved to the bigger room in the house and the signal on my PC and Xbox are suffering for it (they're both wireless obviously).

I've tried looking for signal boosters but so far what I found I either don't fully understand or seems to good to be true (pay a fiver for a disc shaped object and apparently get amazing signal).

I was just wondering if any of you use or know of a way to boost the signal? There is a second phone socket in the room and I know I can't just plug into it but maybe there is something that can be done with it? I can't move the router up here as this is a secondary PC and everyone else uses the downstairs one.
 
look for a high gain antenna, It will plug in the back of the router in place of the current antenna and give you a bit of a boost.
 
WILD9 said:
look for a high gain antenna, It will plug in the back of the router in place of the current antenna and give you a bit of a boost.
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I'm using an Orange livebox so it doesn't have an antenna sticking out, it's all inbuilt. Is there no way to use the phone line up here at all? I don't know much about routers but it just seems convenient. I have a spare Netgear router, can you run two routers on the same phone line?
 
Duroxis said:
Looked into powerline?
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I just looked into it and I found this in a review: It's a neat trick being able to transmit data around your home or office via the mains power wiring. You get a more stable, less interference-prone connection than Wi-Fi and a potentially faster link too. The downside is that there's no roaming, at least not beyond the reach of an RJ-45 cable and however many powerline adaptors you've got dotted around your house.

I'm not savvy with this networking language so could someone explain the downside to the powerline system and the advantages? I'm guessing from what I've read that it's something you put in the plug socket but you wire the pc and xbox to it rather than using the wireless connection. Is that right? If so it sounds good and does anyone know the best budget one available?
 
you would plug one end into your orange box and also a mains socket, the other one you would plug into another socket in the house. This one would then have a network socket on it that you could plug a device into, Its basically just extending a physical network lead using your mains electric cable. Im not sure on the specifics but I dont think there would be anything to stop you plugging a network switch into the remote socket so you can plug multiple devices in.
 
you can boost your signal using this EDIMAX SB-2200G but i dont know if you can get it here in the UK.This boost the signal of your router.
 
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