VERY slow wifi in one area of my house

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faze join:2011-01-10 Reisterstown, MD	VERY slow wifi in one area of my house In my living room, directly underneath a wifi bridge (20 feet from the router upstairs) my wifi is VERY slow. To the point where it takes an hour+ to copy a 750MB file from a laptop to a PC upstairs. Upstairs PC's on wifi get 40mbit down and 55mbit up on my FIOS connection. All machines are on Wireless-N. PC's in this slow area always have full signal to the router but the network speeds are just horrid. Half the time when I'm copying files to the PC that sits down there, it times out and I lose connection to it. What can I do to fix this? Hopefully that makes sense...
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jimbopalmer Tsar of all the Rushers join:2008-06-02 Greenwood, MS kudos:2	This is very much how 'omnidirectional' antennas work. They send the vast majority of the signal perpendicular to the antenna. This is usually a horizontal 'donut' when the antenna points up »www.wlanantennas.com/images/2439···tion.gif If you have dual antennas, you may wish to slope them down some or lay one horizontal. The real solution is one Wireless Access Point per floor. Sorry -- I tried to remain child-like, all I achieved was childish.
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faze join:2011-01-10 Reisterstown, MD	Upstairs router has one antenna. Bridge right above this wifi adapter has no antennas. So what would I do here?
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jimbopalmer Tsar of all the Rushers join:2008-06-02 Greenwood, MS kudos:2 2 edits	said by jimbopalmer: The real solution is one Wireless Access Point per floor. Sorry said by faze: So what would I do here? I would run a network cable down from the router upstairs to the new Wireless Access Point for this floor, personally. Perhaps one closet upstairs is over a closet downstairs. If that is not a choice, you could add a WAP upstairs that has antennas you could 'aim' to cover downstairs, assuming 2.4 Ghz: »www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a···-704-049 For 5 ghz it goes way up: »www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a···33156290 Either way, same SSID as the router and bridge, but different channel. -- I tried to remain child-like, all I achieved was childish.
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faze join:2011-01-10 Reisterstown, MD	I rent so I can run a network cable between floors. 3/5 stars, you sure that's a reliable product? The last TP-Link wifi device I had overheated. It was a wifi adapter.
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jimbopalmer Tsar of all the Rushers join:2008-06-02 Greenwood, MS kudos:2	I use a lot of the cheaper TL-WA701ND (one antenna) and the now discontinued TL-WA500G as Wireless Bridges. They are dead reliable for me. (they keep wanting copiers where there is no wired connection, TP-Link works fine for that. So far they have never tried to install a copier on a floor with no network jack anywhere, so I have not needed the multiple antenna version) -- I tried to remain child-like, all I achieved was childish.
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faze join:2011-01-10 Reisterstown, MD	What about buying a wireless bridge and putting it downstairs, directly under the router upstairs? Would that help? I mean I guess it depends...
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faze join:2011-01-10 Reisterstown, MD	reply to faze So in the other (dupe) thread it was said that channel 1, 6 and 11 are the best. So those channels have average to poor clarity. How will switching to them fix my issue?
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wayjac Premium,MVM join:2001-12-22 Indy	reply to faze Have you looked at ethernet powerline adapters or a wifi powerline adapter.
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faze join:2011-01-10 Reisterstown, MD	I'm in a townhome, and I've heard in living situations like mine those are not secure.
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wayjac Premium,MVM join:2001-12-22 Indy	said by faze: I've heard in living situations like mine those are not secure. Ok.......powerline adapters are not a option for you.
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faze join:2011-01-10 Reisterstown, MD	For the sole reason that I don't know how the homes are wired. Have to figure out this wireless issue, somehow.
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wayjac Premium,MVM join:2001-12-22 Indy	said by faze: I rent so I can run a network cable between floors. The ideal solution is a network cable.......With some ingenuity it can be done inconspicuously.
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faze join:2011-01-10 Reisterstown, MD	When renting one cannot alter the property.
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faze join:2011-01-10 Reisterstown, MD	Other suggestions?
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John Galt Forward, March Premium join:2004-09-30 Happy Camp kudos:5	reply to faze »www.antenna-theory.com/basics/ra···ern.html
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faze join:2011-01-10 Reisterstown, MD	So... I'm not a wireless guy so I don't understand that.
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John Galt Forward, March Premium join:2004-09-30 Happy Camp kudos:5	Being directly above is not good...the signal strength is very low there.
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faze join:2011-01-10 Reisterstown, MD	So why is the kitchen (directly under the router) fine but the living room is crap (directly below and over a room)?
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