Strengthening of Wifi Signal

[shadow_man]

Hi guys have a client who wishes me to strengthen their wifi signal in their house - at the moment only their outside office has wifi signal - they recieve nothing inside, thick walls etc prohibiting any of the signal from coming in...

So what I was thinking was run an ethernet cable inside and connect inside cable to a wifi router - where would be the best place to store said switch - would inside the roof/ceiling be the best in terms of signal distribution - or is it just trial and error, run around placing it all over the house and see what I can come up with...

J

 

[Dr.G]

Go buy ALOT of tin foilWorked with a cellphone on mythbusters

 

[HavocXphere]

First get a laptop, put netstumbler on it and walk *slowly* around the place.

Then you've got a list of all the other wifi nets in the area and their channels. Then change your router channel to an unused one. I've had good luck with channel 13....but not all routers+laptops support it. They overlap so usually 1, 7 and 11 are used to keep channels separate.

Solved my wifi strength problem that way.

General rule is to put router away from walls & metal things.

 

[Friggs]

Get him some of these.
Have a client with a house that has extremely thick walls and floors and was having the same problem, even using the super rangemax netgear didn't help. Plug these into the wall and you can have signal anywhere you want it, works very well and dead easy to set up.

 

[Glordit]

Just rember to set up a firewall or people will pickup on the signal and.... you know the rest

 

[shadow_man]

Get him some of these.
Have a client with a house that has extremely thick walls and floors and was having the same problem, even using the super rangemax netgear didn't help. Plug these into the wall and you can have signal anywhere you want it, works very well and dead easy to set up.

Interesting what do those go for - I was just going to go with taking an AP and connecting it to the dsl modem and then put the AP in the roof and test signal from there...

J