Wifi signal strength suggestions.

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RossCo91

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Hi guys,

I'm looking for some suggestions before I go ahead with my plans to try find a more cost effective route.

I am having problems with Wifi strength over our whole house.

I live in a flat attached to the one end of the house where we have our telephone line coming in and the router connected, I have needed the router out here as I have 2 pc's without wireless that I use. The issue is that the signal when walking through the house diminishes very quickly due to all the walls.

I have tried the Wifi extenders and two different routers, ( Netgear and the mweb router) None of this made any difference, infact the wifi extenders seem to make it worse in the parts that had signal.

I've found if I put the router in the middle of the house it does give better signal in the house. But still not to all corners.

My current working theory is to extend the main telephone cable that comes into the house into the centre of the house and connect the router there, scrap the extenders and run two Ethernet cables back to my side of the house to run the computers from.

The rest of the house uses wifi for everything.

Is there some other miracle work-around for this issue?

Thanks for all your time guys!
 
You could try a Powerline AV adapter kit like
the Linksys
or Trendnet
or TP-Link .
You can use the kit to extend your network over your existing power line long as the flat and the main house are running on the same electrical wiring. You'd plug in one end of the kit next to your router and the other next to your PCs
 
why not run an ethernet cable from one router to the other router and use that one to spread the wifi and have it as extra ports.
Instead of running a phone line and 2 ethernet cables (AFAIK extending the phone line may degrade the line) you just need 1 Ethernet.

So say you Mweb router is connected to your phone line in the flat. run an ethernet cable from there to the centre of the house (or preferably a bit further where the wifi is weaker) -plug into the net gear, set up that router with the same SSID but different channels. your devices will not skip a beat when swapping between the routers.
its pretty easy just turn off DCHP on the netgear and change its IP to the same range as the mweb so if Mweb is 10.0.0.1 the net gear must be 10.0.0.2 and ensure that the Ip range on the Mweb only starts after 10.0.0.3 to prevent ip conflicts (and make sure netgear doesn need to dial the ADSL) then Set sam SSID and password as Mweb just diff chanel.
 
RossCo91 said:
Hi guys,

I'm looking for some suggestions before I go ahead with my plans to try find a more cost effective route.

I am having problems with Wifi strength over our whole house.

I live in a flat attached to the one end of the house where we have our telephone line coming in and the router connected, I have needed the router out here as I have 2 pc's without wireless that I use. The issue is that the signal when walking through the house diminishes very quickly due to all the walls.

I have tried the Wifi extenders and two different routers, ( Netgear and the mweb router) None of this made any difference, infact the wifi extenders seem to make it worse in the parts that had signal.

I've found if I put the router in the middle of the house it does give better signal in the house. But still not to all corners.

My current working theory is to extend the main telephone cable that comes into the house into the centre of the house and connect the router there, scrap the extenders and run two Ethernet cables back to my side of the house to run the computers from.

The rest of the house uses wifi for everything.

Is there some other miracle work-around for this issue?

Thanks for all your time guys!
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Plug a Wifi AP into the router.
 
isie said:
why not run an ethernet cable from one router to the other router and use that one to spread the wifi and have it as extra ports.
Instead of running a phone line and 2 ethernet cables (AFAIK extending the phone line may degrade the line) you just need 1 Ethernet.

So say you Mweb router is connected to your phone line in the flat. run an ethernet cable from there to the centre of the house (or preferably a bit further where the wifi is weaker) -plug into the net gear, set up that router with the same SSID but different channels. your devices will not skip a beat when swapping between the routers.
its pretty easy just turn off DCHP on the netgear and change its IP to the same range as the mweb so if Mweb is 10.0.0.1 the net gear must be 10.0.0.2 and ensure that the Ip range on the Mweb only starts after 10.0.0.3 to prevent ip conflicts (and make sure netgear doesn need to dial the ADSL) then Set sam SSID and password as Mweb just diff chanel.
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I've often wondered if something like this was possible. I could test this method first, I would of liked to keep the netgear router in the flat, but you aren't able to change setting on a mweb router afaik.

But saying that I have to say I have been impressed with the Mweb router, other then the wifi extender not doing that great of a job it's been working well for me.

If it doesn't work out ( the signal still not strong enough in the house ) I'll look at getting:
SYNERGY
Run a network cable into this:

http://www.asus.com/Networking/RTN12HP/

Purchased from TakeAlot.com
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I have little faith in how our house is wired pretty old, so I rather say away from this
kianm
You could try a Powerline AV adapter kit like
the Linksys
or Trendnet
or TP-Link .
You can use the kit to extend your network over your existing power line long as the flat and the main house are running on the same electrical wiring. You'd plug in one end of the kit next to your router and the other next to your PCs
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But thank you all for your input, I think this is a must better idea!


It'll take me a few weeks to get a drill to go through exterior walls, but I will try update on how it goes!
 
My suggestion:

get this Access Point: http://www.scoopdistribution.co.za/product_info.php/unifi-enterprise-p-1129

All your connections problems will be a thing of the past.

The only thing is that you have to run a cable to connect it. It works fantastic and is extremely powerful.

Keep the existing router, get this unit, run the cable, plug it and enjoy. You will never look for another Access Point ever. (You can always change the router anyway...).
 
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