Solve : wireless access?

1.	Solve : wireless access?
Answer» I recently installed a PC in my basement. I know want to add internet ACCESS. Extending the ethernet cable form mu router into the basement is not feasible. I am using a wireless card ( DWL g 132). The signal is very low. Is there an easy to boast the signal or repeat the signal from the my Actiontech mI624 router ? You may have structural interference, or two many neighborhood networks using the same channel. Some specifics could be helpful. How many computers are on your home NETWORK?I have two PC directly connected to the router. I have a third PC on a wireless xard above the router with a strong signal. My fourth PC (with weak signal) is in the basement. I do have structural issues with the basement PC since the signal must go through two concrete WALLS. I have looking for a ways to avould thesse wall by using a wirsless repeater or something like that. I LIVE in dense suburban area and I see my neighbors network stronger than my network. thanksQuote I have two PC directly connected to the router. I have a third PC on a wireless xard above the router with a strong signal. My fourth PC (with weak signal) is in the basement. I do have structural issues with the basement PC since the signal must go through two concrete walls. I have looking for a ways to avould thesse wall by using a wirsless repeater or something like that. I live in dense suburban area and I see my neighbors network stronger than my network. thanks An idea to consider - a home brewed antenna reflector. Here is some description: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/49882/reflector_shield_as_cheap_wireless.html Usually this sort of thing is used in the horizontal plane, to extend range in the desired direction, and to reduce unwanted signals from other directions. It would be interesting to see how well it works in the vertical plane. I've seen the results of a reflector - it was dramatic. However in the situation I observed, the whole problem was distance from the wireless router. Possible interference from other signals did not exist. Where I saw it, was at a friends place of business. The building is about 70 yards from his house. Using a laptop in that building was spotty. You had to find a good place, and keep the laptop still. They added a home made reflector, made from plans found on the web. Now the user of the laptop, in that building, can move about freely, just the same as in the house. Those concrete walls are definitely trouble. I've got similar hardware...Actiontec wireless router and D-Link wireless card. 35 feet and two sheetrock walls apart. A remote antenna connected to the D-Link card gave me a strong, stable signal. The antenna is a Zonet ZWA2006. There are D-Link and Buffalo versions that look identical. Probably all the same MFR. After a little experimentation I grabbed the strongest and most stable channel. Linksys makes a signal booster but I haven't used it. thanks for the input. I went to Comp USA and BB yesterday and both tried to sell the following device to boast the wireless signal. One adapter plus into my router and an electrical OUTLET. A second device plugs into an electrical outlet near my PC. I did not buy the item. Do these devices work ? One last thing is that I have a wireless phone jack near the PC. My guess is that this impacts my wireless PC signal. Thanks

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I recently installed a PC in my basement. I know want to add internet ACCESS. Extending the ethernet cable form mu router into the basement is not feasible. I am using a wireless card ( DWL g 132). The signal is very low.

Is there an easy to boast the signal or repeat the signal from the my Actiontech mI624 router ?

You may have structural interference, or two many neighborhood networks using the same channel. Some specifics could be helpful. How many computers are on your home NETWORK?I have two PC directly connected to the router. I have a third PC on a wireless xard above the router with a strong signal. My fourth PC (with weak signal) is in the basement. I do have structural issues with the basement PC since the signal must go through two concrete WALLS. I have looking for a ways to avould thesse wall by using a wirsless repeater or something like that. I LIVE in dense suburban area and I see my neighbors network stronger than my network.

thanksQuote

I have two PC directly connected to the router. I have a third PC on a wireless xard above the router with a strong signal. My fourth PC (with weak signal) is in the basement. I do have structural issues with the basement PC since the signal must go through two concrete walls. I have looking for a ways to avould thesse wall by using a wirsless repeater or something like that. I live in dense suburban area and I see my neighbors network stronger than my network.

thanks

An idea to consider - a home brewed antenna reflector.

Here is some description:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/49882/reflector_shield_as_cheap_wireless.html

Usually this sort of thing is used in the horizontal plane, to extend range in the desired direction, and to reduce unwanted signals from other directions.
It would be interesting to see how well it works in the vertical plane.

I've seen the results of a reflector - it was dramatic. However in the situation I observed, the whole problem was distance from the wireless router. Possible interference from other signals did not exist. Where I saw it, was at a friends place of business. The building is about 70 yards from his house. Using a laptop in that building was spotty. You had to find a good place, and keep the laptop still.

They added a home made reflector, made from plans found on the web. Now the user of the laptop, in that building, can move about freely, just the same as in the house.

Those concrete walls are definitely trouble.
I've got similar hardware...Actiontec wireless router and D-Link wireless card.
35 feet and two sheetrock walls apart.

A remote antenna connected to the D-Link card gave me a strong, stable signal.
The antenna is a Zonet ZWA2006. There are D-Link and Buffalo versions that look identical. Probably all the same MFR.
After a little experimentation I grabbed the strongest and most stable channel.

Linksys makes a signal booster but I haven't used it.

thanks for the input.

I went to Comp USA and BB yesterday and both tried to sell the following device to boast the wireless signal. One adapter plus into my router and an electrical OUTLET. A second device plugs into an electrical outlet near my PC. I did not buy the item.

Do these devices work ?

One last thing is that I have a wireless phone jack near the PC. My guess is that this impacts my wireless PC signal.

Thanks

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