ADSL 2+ With Wireless capabilities

[hayted]

Hi there
Could someone please give me some advice on what modem I can buy that would work for my situation. I live in a house that is not open plan. My ADSL connection in in a small office of 3m x 3m, Lounge is about 15m away where our laptops stay. I have had a wireless router before but the connection keeps dropping there. what relatively cheap ADSL 2+ modem (with wireless capabilities) would work well.

I can get this quite cheaply:
Billion 400G Firewall ADSL2+ Router

But I would like to know what anyone else thinks or or someone who also lives place that is not open plan if they have had any issues like I do?

 

[MickZA]

I am achieving about 20m thru 2 exterior & 3 interior walls utilizing a D-Link DWL2100AP (wireless access point) at the ADSL router end, a combination modem/router/WAP (D-Link & Netgear tested) did not work. Correct antenna positioning at the PC (not a laptop) is still necessary though.

 

[MagicDude4Eva]

Hi there
Could someone please give me some advice on what modem I can buy that would work for my situation. I live in a house that is not open plan. My ADSL connection in in a small office of 3m x 3m, Lounge is about 15m away where our laptops stay. I have had a wireless router before but the connection keeps dropping there. what relatively cheap ADSL 2+ modem (with wireless capabilities) would work well.

I can get this quite cheaply:
Billion 400G Firewall ADSL2+ Router

But I would like to know what anyone else thinks or or someone who also lives place that is not open plan if they have had any issues like I do?

I have a similar setup and tried a number of different wireless routers and Wifi connectivity was not not great in the lounge. I also tried Powerline adaptors with an AP in bridged mode which was more robust, but the Powerline adaptors constantly flaked out. I then switched to an Apple AirportExpress which acts in bridged mode and is wired via Ethernet - this is the most reliable option I have found and due to the Airport's form factor does not clutter.

BTW: I did find that routers with A/B/G support did work better than running on N/N+ (with the N-grade routers I experienced constant switching on my laptop). I eventually placed a switch in the lounge so that I can reliably stream video/iTunes.

Hint: When I went through my trials, I seriously pissed of Incredible, as I purchased a number of routers over a weekend and returned the ones which did not work well ;-). I eventually went with a Netgear DG834 ADSL modem (flashed with DGTeam), two gigabit switches (5-port Zyxel), a Belkin N1 in the study (they have live-time warranty) and the Airport Express in the lounge.

 

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price?

 

[Stalker]

R1200