Wireless Connectivity question.

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I have a question about increasing the connectivity strength regarding my wirless laptop. When I am at the far end of the house (from the Belkin router(hub)) the connection shows quality as low or poor. In the rest of the house it is either very good or excellent. How can I strengthen the connectivity to that one portion of my home?

I know that at my last job, the IT guy setup another wireless router to strengthen the connection through a certain part of the building that had poor connection with the main hub. Is this what I need to do? Too buy another router or is there something smaller and cheaper that I can use?

Thanks for any help somebody can provide

vmansd · Answer

Before buying more hardware, there are some things to try with your current equipment.

Placement of the the hub - can you move it to a more central location?
Are you trying to reach it from different floors of the house? - If so, does changing its elevation to be closer to that of the problem area help.

Experiment with the orientation of the hub's antenna(s).

If such actions don't work, consider changing the antenna of the hub. Belkin doesn't seem to sell any, but some offered by D-Link might work - like http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=57

Val

johnallg · Answer

Also this works.

vmansd · Answer

John, That antenna reflector looks like a great low-tech solution!! Gonna have to make one, too. Val

johnallg · Answer

I did make 2 and I can say I picked up more signal.  On your wireless router, it will increase gain in the direction you point it and also limit the signal in all other directions.  Good for keeping the signal on your premesis.

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