Extending wireless signal across house - repeater options??

I think the problem here is in the fact that you dont want to spend money ! I have given options in this debate along with others with regard to repeaters, Ethernet over power adaptors, ect, whithout spending money, now its time to spend some effort !
I agree with previous post, get a longer cable, make one or join 2 together.
You last resort is this ! You need to remember that Wi-Fi is a sort of '2 wall technology' once its gone through 2 walls its in trouble ! Wi-Fi does not like building structure, so if your 'short cable' cable is long enough to get through a wall in the right direction that you want to extend range, drill a hole in the wall and connect the 2 routers, you may be surprised what happens !
 
I agree with the not wanting cables, what would be a good option in a repeater or AP? My old linksys setup with the DDR-WRT software works like a charm I get 6000kb/s to my media payer. I now have another application at a client an cannot install cable so looking for options.
 
I agree with the not wanting cables, what would be a good option in a repeater or AP? My old linksys setup with the DDR-WRT software works like a charm I get 6000kb/s to my media payer. I now have another application at a client an cannot install cable so looking for options.
 
fionab said:
I agree with the not wanting cables, what would be a good option in a repeater or AP? My old linksys setup with the DDR-WRT software works like a charm I get 6000kb/s to my media payer. I now have another application at a client an cannot install cable so looking for options.
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A customer of mine needed to run a network from the far side of his house to the the guest cottage. We worked out that total cabling would need to be 180m (this means a switch would also need to be put in halfway somewhere).

After confirming that the cottage was on the same electricity circuit, we installed the following and it works like a charm:
http://www.geewiz.co.za/networking/127-200mbps-homeplug-networking-set-2x-ac-adapters.html

And it's plug and play too ;)
 
alkit said:
A customer of mine needed to run a network from the far side of his house to the the guest cottage. We worked out that total cabling would need to be 180m (this means a switch would also need to be put in halfway somewhere).

After confirming that the cottage was on the same electricity circuit, we installed the following and it works like a charm:
http://www.geewiz.co.za/networking/127-200mbps-homeplug-networking-set-2x-ac-adapters.html

And it's plug and play too ;)
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Your website doesn't seem to work...?
 
Thanks for the info, I have again tested with a repeater and get it to work at my house, but when unplugging and setting up in final location with line of site no luck, 3 days battling giving it a rest and will try again tommorow.
One of my suppliers also sells the power option - Billion but very pricy then again the cable would need to be over 300m so it may be the way to go.
 
alkit said:
Thanks for the heads up. I have emailed my hosting company to sort it out asap. I will post back here when it is up again.
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My host did an upgarde yesterday and was waiting for DNS entries to update. Website is back up and running and fully functional
 
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