Posted: 5/2/2010 1:57:21 PM EDT
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How do I increase my wifi coverage at home? Old house, steel lathe and plaster walls. Small house. One room away and not much signal.
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You can load an aftermarket firmware like OpenWRT to increase transmit power on the AP, but you are going to run into a problem with the card in your laptop at that point. Best option is to run cable to each room and put an access point in each room. Then run those wires back to a central router. -Mike |
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Quoted: Is this a kit? What type of wire? I would just need one. Brand name to ask for? Thanks again. If I were doing this, I would go with as many of these as needed: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=5601581&SRCCODE=GOOGLEBASE&cm_mmc_o=VRqCjC7BBTkwCjCECjCE |
| You are going to have a problem with the steel lathe and plaster walls. The lathe acts as a Faraday cage and is going to kill your reception to one degree or another depending on type, gauge, opening size between strands/extrusions, angle of transmission/reception, etc. Your best bet is like some of the others said, get a better antenna if your router will take one, possibly a better wireless card/antenna for your computer. |