Need to get the wireless signal in another room [netgear wireless router] [bedroom apartment]
Q: Ive seen this link – text (http://www.ezlan.net/Distance.html) – over and over again, but thats not what Im looking for. I am in a 2-bedroom apartment and I just need to get the signal from one room to another. I have a Netgear wireless router (802.11g) and it will not go 30 feet, because there is a stove and a refrigerator between her and my roommate computer. I would buy a new antenna or something to get around having to wire to get into the other room. Please do not suggest this as I have no interest in doing so.
Is there a way to signal one way or another right in his room? As I said, I only need to get to another computer. Sometimes I bring my notebook home from work and work in the living room, but unless absolutely kills the signal in the living room, which may not be a strong appreciated.
If problem.
Any ideas nobody has any cheap ideas, then at least let me know what antennas will work with a Netgear router.
Best Answer: well,. you will require finding if there is a wireless connection around on your laptop. Make a diagnostics test and see if there is one and connect to it.. If you have WPA or WEP (wireless protection) you'll need a password for your laptop.
Re:See this post as an extension to guy?s post above.
Take a Laptop and go into the second room, put the laptop in the center of the room about 5?-6?. Go back to the Living room and within the latitude of the current connection cables play logically with the location of the Cable/DSL Router. You can even try temporarily to put an Aluminum Foil reflector behind the Router?s Antenna to direct more of the signal toward the other room. If you get any thing on the Laptop then use one of the solutions that mentioned in guy?s post.
Otherwise, if the Signal is absolutely killed then you can only bring the signal closer to the second room by using one of the solutions that you saw at ezlan.net.
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Re:A few thoughts:
The idea is to improve reception at the remote PC, not change your access point (discounting the "move it around a bit" suggestion). That way it doesn't change any of the results for other users, like your laptop in the living room.
If it's a single PC that's having the problem, does it have a USB or a PCI wireless network card? If it's PCI, go buy a USB card from somewhere you can take it back if it doesn't work. Get a USB extension cable and try to move the USB device around a bit – Mount it up on the wall, fiddle with it, and see if you can find a "spot" that works consitently. Might have to do this in conjunction with moving the AP around.
If you can't, try and go to a directional antenna on the remote PC. Keep in mind that you don't have to go spend $100 on an antenna – There's plenty of home-brew directional antennas out there that are very easy to build, especially with a small USB-based adapter. For example, these guys (http://www.usbwifi.orcon.net.nz/) took a USB antenna and a spider strainer and built a 15+DB gain dish. Cheap, and effective.
Lastly – Any cordless phones around that could be causing interference?
- G
Re:Have you tried situating the wireless router in a different part of the room it's in to try and get a better signal through the wall? Maybe mount it to the ceiling in the corner closest to the other room?
The applicances probably aren't helping, but you should be able to get a signal through there.
You could try running NetStumbler and watch the graph as you walk around the apartment. See at what point on the other side of the wall it gets really bad. Also look at how the graph changes when you move the router around.
Re:Originally posted by: guy
If the signal can't make it through the wall there's not much you can do besides hardwiring.
I couldn't get a 5dB gain antenna? That wouldn't help?
Mind you, he gets signal, but it cuts out and reconnects all the time.
Re:If the signal can't make it through the wall there's not much you can do besides hardwiring.
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