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My wireless reception is rubbish, can anyone recommend a USB powered aerial on a lead that could (would) help by letting me place it away from my wireless-dead-spot-of-doom
Hi All.
I'm struggling to get wi-fi reception on one of the computers in my house. Unfortunately it's the other side of the house to where the router is (couldn't be further unless I put it on the roof or in the garden >_<). Now while I do get wi-fi reception and it logs onto the network, the signal strength is always very poor and the internet connection is intermittent at best. Ordinarily I'd consider moving either the router or the computer but for lots of petty (insert word of choice here) reasons it's easier to try and fix it on a technical scale rather than an inter-personal scale.
From what I've discovered about this house, it uses foil backed insulation and steel / aluminium ducts for the vented warm air heating system, neither of which are good for wi-fi signals.
A new motherboard with built in wireless and a cordless mouse sized usb receiver has boosted signal strength by getting the aerial away from the back of the computer in a corner.
I'm thinking I can get more / better signal by having a bigger aerial connected via usb that i can put ontop of the computer or up on a bookshelf, or even just not in a corner surrounded by metal.
Do any of you have any suggestions about what product OcUK may or may not sell that could help me?
And for those wondering why I haven't just put a cable in... re-read the section about inter-personal rubbish.
My wireless reception is rubbish, can anyone recommend a USB powered aerial on a lead that could (would) help by letting me place it away from my wireless-dead-spot-of-doom
Hi All.
I'm struggling to get wi-fi reception on one of the computers in my house. Unfortunately it's the other side of the house to where the router is (couldn't be further unless I put it on the roof or in the garden >_<). Now while I do get wi-fi reception and it logs onto the network, the signal strength is always very poor and the internet connection is intermittent at best. Ordinarily I'd consider moving either the router or the computer but for lots of petty (insert word of choice here) reasons it's easier to try and fix it on a technical scale rather than an inter-personal scale.
From what I've discovered about this house, it uses foil backed insulation and steel / aluminium ducts for the vented warm air heating system, neither of which are good for wi-fi signals.
A new motherboard with built in wireless and a cordless mouse sized usb receiver has boosted signal strength by getting the aerial away from the back of the computer in a corner.
I'm thinking I can get more / better signal by having a bigger aerial connected via usb that i can put ontop of the computer or up on a bookshelf, or even just not in a corner surrounded by metal.
Do any of you have any suggestions about what product OcUK may or may not sell that could help me?
And for those wondering why I haven't just put a cable in... re-read the section about inter-personal rubbish.
