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Recenty got Virgin ADSL installed in my student house. Speeds are a bit rubbish but then so is the line.
Anyway, the supplied router appears be CRAP. I'm not there at the moment (visiting girlfriend) and won't be until tomorrow. However, a flatmate couldn't get connection in his room (no more than 20m away) but could get it perfectly in the room with the router. The flat isn't even that big so I'm a bit annoyed tbh.
We can't really move the router and the BT mastersocket is in a strange place (flatmates room downstairs on the other side of the flat). At best we can move it from her room and into the dining room with a 10m cat5 or something.
I think they currently have it installed behind her bed (she doesn't like the lights and that's where the mastersocket is, had real trouble finding that) so it's not in a great area. I know this isn't helping things but I didn't think it would nuke it this hard.
It's a rented flat so we can't drill holes in the floor/ceiling to run a cable so it would be a massive effort to run it meters and meters around the flat.
I was thinking homeplugs but they're quite pricey as we'd need to have 6 all together (six person house) and it means we can't have wifi except in a limited area. This is kind of a pain as I usually have my xbox/pc/netbook all hooked up but would only be able to have one at a time connected by cable in my room.
Signal extenders/relays seem to be a bit crap but looks like it might be the only option. What about a homeplug (onto say the landing) and then a relay/router attached to the homeplug?
I'm going to have a look at the router settings (mainly changing the channel) to see if I can ge a better connection but I'm not hoping for much.
Thoughts?
Anyway, the supplied router appears be CRAP. I'm not there at the moment (visiting girlfriend) and won't be until tomorrow. However, a flatmate couldn't get connection in his room (no more than 20m away) but could get it perfectly in the room with the router. The flat isn't even that big so I'm a bit annoyed tbh.
We can't really move the router and the BT mastersocket is in a strange place (flatmates room downstairs on the other side of the flat). At best we can move it from her room and into the dining room with a 10m cat5 or something.
I think they currently have it installed behind her bed (she doesn't like the lights and that's where the mastersocket is, had real trouble finding that) so it's not in a great area. I know this isn't helping things but I didn't think it would nuke it this hard.
It's a rented flat so we can't drill holes in the floor/ceiling to run a cable so it would be a massive effort to run it meters and meters around the flat.
I was thinking homeplugs but they're quite pricey as we'd need to have 6 all together (six person house) and it means we can't have wifi except in a limited area. This is kind of a pain as I usually have my xbox/pc/netbook all hooked up but would only be able to have one at a time connected by cable in my room.
Signal extenders/relays seem to be a bit crap but looks like it might be the only option. What about a homeplug (onto say the landing) and then a relay/router attached to the homeplug?
I'm going to have a look at the router settings (mainly changing the channel) to see if I can ge a better connection but I'm not hoping for much.
Thoughts?