Boosting Wifi Modem Router range?

[keymaster]

Hi guys,

I recently bought a DLink DSL2750U Modem router, I find the wifi range pretty similar to my older 150mbps router.
I wanted to know if its possible to boost the range/signal? Because there seems to be a lot of dead spots in my house.

Can you get stronger antennas for this router?

Thanks
Key

 

[Chevron]

Best way would be to just get another access point at the opposite side of your house.

 

[Evo1ve]

You could use this to "repeat" the wireless signal from your D-Link 2750 if you got money to spend.

http://www.dbg.co.za/product_info.php?cPath=1_55_56&products_id=390

 

[keymaster]

hmm...my main router is like 3m behind me and its kinda at a corner...yet i'm only receiving 2bars of wifi signal. The dead spot is quite insane.

And I do have another 150mbps router in my room, which extends the signal to other rooms as well.
I guess I'll just keep it this way, later this year...IF Telkom finally decided to upgrade their exchanges, so I can finally get my 10Mbps, then I'll wire another router on the other side for a all rounded signal.

Or even use what Evo1ve suggested.

Thanks guys, I thought there is an antenna upgrade for the routers.

Key

 

[upup]

I moved my router to the center of the house. now the whole house covered.
Router is just under the ceiling, 3m height.

 

[keymaster]

I would do that if I could, but my house is in a L shape, so its a bit difficult, and many walls.

I moved my router to the center of the house. now the whole house covered.
Router is just under the ceiling, 3m height.

 

[hartz]

You can resolve a LOT of reception issues by moving the router arround. Generally a few cm away from the nearest wall is a big gain!

Why? Because when the router is too close to a solid object, you will receive two "copies" of the signal at nearly the same strength - one directly from the antenna, and the other a bounced signal from the wall. Imagine a double image on your TV screen, one just slightly off in one direction. That is what your laptop needs to deal with. The router received the same "bounced off wall" signal from the devices as well.

The further the device are from any walls, the more signal loss there is before it bounced from the wall and the easier it is for other devices to distinguish between the real and the bounced signal (noise).

Objects between you and the router cause more noise - when someone stands between you and the router then only the bounced signal is seen.

Make sure the antenna is pointing straight up or down.

My personal experience, and other people report the same, is that a router higher up works better than one on the floor. I don't know why that would be. Both devices must transmit and receive, so why can't the laptop be the higher-up device.

 

[Tim the Techxpert]

Hi There,
My router is about half a metre from the wall and 1.3m off the ground and I am getting good reception in a house that is filled with walls and a steel supporting beam.
just try and move it around until you get a better signal.
Sometimes the most stupid place to put it works fine. Mine sits on top of the PC that is on the desktop and a lot of people advise against that.

Regards

Tim

 

[WiFibre]

Get yourself some Ethernet over power adapters (easy to set up) and use your old router in the deadspot on the same SSID with the same password, in this set-up you can seamlessly roam between the two and they both work together on the coverage, like a mini mesh.