Re: Wireless router behind TV?


"kráftéé" <kraftee@b&e-cottee.me.uk> wrote in message
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Dave wrote:
I'm trying to help a friend set up a wireless router but we keep
losing the wireless connection. He's on Virgin Media Cable
(ex-Telewest area) and the cable guys left him a cable modem (I
think it's a Scientific Atlanta, but may be wrong) behind the TV in
the living room at the front of the house - they wouldn't install
it upstairs, which is where he really wanted it.
Anyway, the main (desktop) computer is in the spare bedroom at the
upstairs back of the house (3-bed semi, built around 1965), so he
asked me to get him a wireless router and wireless adaptor, so I
went with a Linksys WRT54GL router and matching Linksys WUSB54GC
USB adaptor.
I'd read good reports of the DD-WRT third-party firmware so I have
to admit that I didn't try it with the factory-default Linksys
firmware at all, but just flashed the router straight away with the
DD-WRT firmware. The main reason I did this was because the router
leaves the factory with a default and non-adjustable radio
transmission power of 28mW but the DD-WRT firmware allows
adjustment of that, up to (but definitely not advised) 200mW. Given
its position of having to sit on the floor behind the telly, I
tweaked it from the default 28 to 70mW.
The adaptor in the desktop upstairs reports signal strength and
quality to be either "excellent" or "very good", (never dropping to
either just "good" or "poor") but it frequently loses the signal
altogether - it seems to be "all or nothing".

Anyone got any ideas what to do? Anyone else running a wireless
router in close proximity to a TV?

Cheers and TIA,

Dave

The TV could be causing your problems, but why try the difficult route
when you can go the route of networking over the mains, which would be
around the same cost & above all will work in the situation described

Because the cable modem is literally just that, a modem, with only one
ethernet port. But there are now three computers in the house so (a) some
form of router was needed and (b) the cost of a router and three
ethernet/mains units would be far more than the £65 he's just spent on the
two Linksys units.

Dave


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