Re: Extending WiFi
- From: NEWS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Roger Merriman)
- Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 13:43:02 +0100
SM <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Roger Merriman <NEWS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > SM <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > I've got a Netgear DG834G whose wireless signal is not reaching the far
> > > end of the house. I'm presuming that the best solution is to run an
> > > ethernet cable to a remote "base station", rather than situate the
> > > remote one half way.
> > >
> > > The Airport Express is very neat, but I've read comments online that its
> > > signal isn't very strong. Also not sure whether it would work OK in
> > > tandem with the Netgear. I'm also guessing that there are cheaper
> > > alternatives.
> > >
> > > Another thought is that the Netgear has a removeable aerial, but the
> > > only replacement aerials I've seen are the Dr Bott ones for Airport
> > > Extremes. I've tried repositioning the Netgear but nowhere covers the
> > > whole house - probably the thick stone walls.
> > >
> > > I'd welcome any advice on strategies and hardware.
> > >
> > > Stuart
> >
> > as other have said your router doesn't support WDS so you can't join it
> > to another wireless router, but you could do
>
> I hadn't heard of WDS, but I have now!
>
> > a) run a long cable to a sutble wireless access point.
>
> That's what I intended, trying to find out if any access point will
> work, or whether there are more complications
>
> WPN824 > ethernet cable > wireless AP
>
> WPN824 > ethernet cable > Airport Express
>
> > b) possibly do it the other way round ie router <wifi> wireless acccess
> > point <ethernet> to desktops.
> >
> > i do simpatisese as even with a airpot base and express i can't cover
> > the entire house, though as the express is so small you can just pick it
> > up and plug it in, there by moving your network.
>
> Here the signal seems to go through floors and lath & plaster walls
> fine, but not the thick stone walls.
i find that i can get though one wall just about, the walls are thick
stone walls but luckly the base station in in a large room so i am able
to postion the express above and to the side and the express has enought
power to just about get though the wall, but yes plaster walls and
floors don't seem to make much differnce to wifi, even breeze block
walls don't seem to imped it much
>
> I like the Airport Express because it's so neat, just hanging off a wall
> socket.
>
yes thats why i got it, some thing with a plug cable etc would end get
knocked off, etc and i can move the express so instead of covering the
upper east side of the house it covers the kitchen and a part of the
garden.
> Naturally I've got ethernet wires running everywhere except where I
> can't get any wireless at the moment :-)
>
heh um i'm not sure i understand, you seem to be saying you have wires
where you have wireless, and no wires where there is no wireless?
i guess you mean you have ethernet running about the house in the prarts
that wireless can't reach?
> Stuart
Roger
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