Good morning!

I have an issue. My dell laptop has an absolute junk internal wireless receiver, and in my new home I cannot pull a consistent connection in my room on the second floor. My brother-in-law's laptop pulls the connection fine in my room.

The router (CISCO E3000 - using Tomato as network utility) is in the kitchen, diagonally below. Both of our laptops pull nearly identical signals and speeds in the kitchen near to the router, and also direct connected via ethernet port.

The house is wired with rj-45 jacks in several rooms, including mine. The jack is working in my room (now, after rerouting the wire, which was previously cut and rerouted to the basement).

My question: can I connect a wireless access point (not a second router/switch/wap combo) to the rj-45 in my room to broadcast a secondary wireless signal so my super awesome and not at all disappointing Dell can pull the signal, in addition to my smart TV and Xbox/Wii. Essentially, accomplishing the same thing a wireless range EXTENDER would, only better, as it would be broadcasting a fresh signal instead of amplifying an exisiting signal.

Notes:

There is a baby monitor operating on the 2.4ghz frequency in the next room.

My PC is WIN7 64bit, and in a month or two I will be upgrading to Lenovo Yoga 13 (the top end specs model) with Win8 Pro.

I also plan on purchasing the Linksys AE3000 wireless adapter, because I have this same weak/nil connectivity issue in my friend's basement, where I spend many Saturdays.

I have already troubleshot the COMPUTER in many ways, with ipconfig flush/release, disabling tcp autotuning, resetting the winsock, and anything Google or my IT friends and I could think up. I already know that my Dell just has an insufficient wireless receiver based on all the rule-out troubleshooting I went through.Yes, just make sure the AP is configured on a channel that wont interfere with the one below you

Quote from: The_Valkyrie on JANUARY 16, 2013, 10:07:28 AM

Yes, just make sure the AP is configured on a channel that wont interfere with the one below you