boosters

[bigfella]

hi i wonder if any one can help .... i m currently workin away from home and living in someones house in digs ....theres wireless for my laapy available but it s in the back of the house where the owners live ... its quite a old house with thick walls etc and the signal is poor and the laptops works intermittently ....i was wondering if any one had any suggestions or solutions so i could improve the wireless signal ... i was thinking of the boosters u can get which u plug into ur usb point on ur lappy...wondered if any one had tried these and which one to go for if they work ok ....many many thanks in advance.....ps just heard about home plugs ...would these be ok and wat would be the best and are they hard to set up?????

[Canker_Canison]

Would you be looking for something like this.....

1000mW wi-fi dongle

Change the antenna to something with around a 15dbi to 20dbi gain & you'll be rockin'

There are 2000mW dongles out there somewhere, but Southern Comfort had some issues with the high gain antennas, 9dbi worked best for him.
They also have some issues with windows 7 if what I read previously is correct.


I'm currently running a 1000mW dongle with a 20dbi gain antenna on my netbook. I had 80% connection strength over 100m in a blizzard (tapped a neighbours wi-fi) during the winter. It never dropped out on me. It's that strong I can't run my PC & netbook in the same room, the netbook dongle kills the PC connection.

[bigfella]

thanks for reply canker but in the meantime the owner of the house has got back to me and said a friend who is a software engineer reccommended she used home plugs for each of the rooms .....anyone out kno if this would work to get a good internet signal and wat homeplugs to use ?and is it easy to set up wat would she need to do this ??? many thanks in advance

[Canker_Canison]

Any home plugs will do, but at around ?40 or more a pair it's not the cheap option.

Ebuyer Network plugs

[drawflex]

1st big problem with homeplugs is extension leads.. most multi-way extension leads have ant-surge protection built in (might not say so on the casing)... this anti-surge protection filters the mains voltage and stops the homeplug signal from passing through... so you gotta make sure there are no multi-extension leads (at-least none with anti-surge)between either homeplug.

2nd fridges/freezers and other inductive appliances spew out lots of noise onto the mains when they switch on/off constantly which can mess with your signal big-time.

[bigfella]

thanks for the replys....firstly she got a internet booster that u put half way from the router to the laptop but this didnt work so she s got home plugs ,,,,plug in and go and so far .. seems to workin ok.i m gettin on average 75 mbps ,,,,was wondering if that was ok ?