Wireless Signal Strength Help

[F1aw1ess]

Hi everyone, my parents have a very large house (21 rooms over 3 floors) and I have been trying to get a decent wireless signal throughout the house for sometime now without much success.

I'm really looking for someone to point me towards a product that will give the coverage we need.

The current setup is as follows;

The master BT phone socket is located on the 1st floor at one end of the house to which a Netgear DG834G v2 is connected. I have unscrewed the antenna and added a high gain 9db antenna.

I then have it running through to a homeplug, there are then another 2 wireless home plugs, one on the ground floor and the other on floor 3 to supply a decent signal to the whole house.

For what ever reason the connection drops out all the time and consiering they only get 1.2mb at the socket, the moment homeplugs are used we're losing too much bandwidth in the process.

So back to the initial question, if I were to run a router straight into the roof of the property, what business grade router would be powerful enough to supply the whole house in one foul swoop therefore negating the problems we're having with a shaky homeplug system?

I see the local hospital seems to have some fancy Cisco kit, but bet their expensive and wondered whether we really need that kind of stuff?

Anyway, hope someone can help or at least point me in the right direction?

Thanks guys as always

 

[JAzz]

Don't use wireless homeplugs. Buy a decent set and at the end of each homeplug put a dedicated wireless access point and that should give you good coverage throughout the house.

You can even set each access point to the same SSID and password so as a person moves through they will connect to the strongest access point, just make sure you set the channels different to each one to avoid interference.

Also am I right in guessing this might be a commercial use property rather than residential? If so then maybe a more robust router than the Netgear DG834G v2 might be needed if a lot of people will connect at the same time? I'm not a networking expert so I'm sure others would give better advice but thought I'd chip in