[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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