[PLUG] Home wireless network dropouts
R Haack
gluebert at comcast.net
Tue Feb 15 15:12:48 UTC 2005
You might try a wireless range extender (WRE). The only thing you'd
have to do is plug the WRE into an outlet, no other cable connections
are required. I don't know how well or if they work so maybe somebody
else on the list can tell you if these work or not.
Robert Haack
> We've got a small network set up in our house. The cable modem and
> router are in the basement; two machines are connected to the router
> by cat5, and two have USB wireless adapters. One wireless machine is
> in a 2nd-floor bedroom directly above the basement router; the other
> is in another 2nd-floor bedroom, but at the opposite end of the house.
>
> Connection between the router and the wireless machines is generally
> good, but the machine located farthest from the router (as a wild
> guess, I'll say 35 - 40 feet straight line distance) experiences
> periods of signal dropout. Connectivity will disappear for 5 minutes,
> then be ok for 30 minutes, then drop out for a few more minutes, then
> be ok for an hour, etc.
>
> I'd like to fix this situation, if possible. I don't think the router
> can be moved, but I wonder if another router might have greater signal
> strength, and if that might solve the problem. The current router is
> a Netgear MR814v2 - we used to have Linksys but gave up on them
> because of a strange, difficult-to-track-down incompatibility with
> FreeBSD (apparently).
>
> Not really relevant to the situation, but the 2 basement machines are
> FreeBSD, one wireless machine is SuSE 9.1, and the one suffering the
> dropout problem is a Debian (well, a Knoppix 3.3).
>
> Any advice or information would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks-
>
> --
> David Fleck
> david.fleck at mchsi.com
>
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