Help needed - wireless

koolpc

koolpc

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My mates dad has finished doing up an extention on the house for renting out but the wireless signal in there is hopeless.

Is there a away to extend the wireless signal?

The router is in the old part of the house and the ext is approx 30ft away. Ta
 
Yeah, run cabling, and place a wireless access point (or redundant wireless router with DHCP disabled) on the end of the new cable.

Alternatively, try powerline adapters to remove the need for physical network cabling, but personally I don't rate them, they fail after time, and cost more than cabling properly.
 
Ok, so a wireless access point. Easy to setup?

Any particular make/model?

I guess its not possible to plug in another router to the phone socket in the extension as it runs the same number?
 
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guess its not possible to plug in another router to the phone socket in the extension as it runs the same number?
 
No, you can only have one ADSL modem syncing with the line at any one time.

Just run some network cable, assuming it's a relatively (>1980) internal cavity wall, it should take no longer than 30 minutes to run some up to the loft and back down where needed.

One thing I would suggest if you do decide to run a network cable, is to actually run 2 or 4 and place multiple sockets in the new extension. 1) This means you won't have to do it again if one cable turns out to be faulty or fail in the future, and 2) Tt means that you have the option to fit more than just a Wireless AP (or router running as a wireless AP) in the new extension.

Oddly I'm fully cabling a house tomorrow morning.
 
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30ft? and you have signal issues???

1) have you checked the signal on a different device? (ie crappy signal on your laptop does your phone get a good signal, could be a broken aireal)

2) wireless N router upgrade and wireless N in the client machine (£50 soution)


3) possible put a wireless extender (£35) half way to the client machine..

4) wire is best if its an option (as already stated)

5) do you have anything wireless in your house that interfeering (wireless speakers or those sky box's that beam tv round your house, other wireless routers)
 
Must be the make up of the walls. Every device has terrible connection problems. Tried a few routers, all the same.

So, Ethernet cable into extension, then a wireless access point connected to that?
 
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