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dellsweig
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Re: Wireless Range - Indoor - Help
Option number 2 is your best bet
I live in a long ranch style house. I used a BEFW11S4 for a couple years - through many firmware 'upgrades' - My home office - on the far side of the house - had marginal signal.
I upgraded to a WRT54G, then to the hyperwrt firmware and now run rock solid signal - 5 walls, a bathroom, etc, etc.
You also might try a set of high gain antennas (Radio Shack) - It will help ALOT on the receiver side
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jsolo1
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| Dellsweig,
Did you make any changes to the power setting, or the 5 walls, bathroom, etc, is all on default settings?
What level of security?
I recently setup a wireless network for a friend. He's in a 3 flat. The router is on the third floor. The machine in the basement gets 4-5 bars (win98se) using WEP. The building is at least 100 yrs old, so i'm sure the floors are pretty thick.
I boosted the power to 35 mw, though I'm sure similar signal levels would be achieved with the default 28 mw (WRT54G).
It is actually quite surprising on the range.
In a different installation, in a building with walls of cinder blocks, the furthest machine is ~60', going through 4 or 5 walls, and still achieves 2 bars.
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dellsweig
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| said by jsolo1  :Dellsweig, Did you make any changes to the power setting, or the 5 walls, bathroom, etc, is all on default settings? What level of security? I recently setup a wireless network for a friend. He's in a 3 flat. The router is on the third floor. The machine in the basement gets 4-5 bars (win98se) using WEP. The building is at least 100 yrs old, so i'm sure the floors are pretty thick. I boosted the power to 35 mw, though I'm sure similar signal levels would be achieved with the default 28 mw (WRT54G). It is actually quite surprising on the range. In a different installation, in a building with walls of cinder blocks, the furthest machine is ~60', going through 4 or 5 walls, and still achieves 2 bars. Jsolo
I am running at the 42mw setting (50%), WEP, Radio Shack 5Db antennas, frame burst enabled, mixed mode - everything else is basically stock settings.
I have the router on the top shelf of a closet, completly hidden (passes the wife test that way)
The range with this combination is amazing - especially for a $50 router!!
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