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| I have a situation where I set up a wireless link from office to house and the signal is poor. Does anyone have any experience with the inexpensive booster aerials? do they work?
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My System: Mcbee C2D
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| Personally I would buy a router that puts out a stronger signal rather than getting a booster.
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There are 4 levels of wireless router. G G+ G+ Mimo G+ N Mimo G is only really good for same room. G+ Is for next room/upstairs. The last two are much more powerful, with a G+ N Mimo router you should have no problem getting the signal down the road. :) What one do you have? My System: Hybr!d
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| It's just G. It came with the BT broadband. |
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| It's **** then, you will be lucky to get a signal in the next room depending how thick your walls are. I'd upgrade it mate, for the price of a booster you can get a better router which is a much cleaner, more reliable way of doing things. Let me know if you need me to suggest something. |
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| It's not as bad as that. It actually works ok although it is only getting a half strength signal. This is over a distance of 150 feet. What I was wondering was would a stronger aerial than the stock item on both router and card make any difference? |
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| Not really, the signal is only as good as the router. With G at half signal your getting around 25mbps. With G+ N Mimo on full you will get 300Mbps. http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProdu...duct_Id=299342 Belkin explain it better. |
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| you could get a cheapo router and set it up as bridge, or one of those apple airport things, but you may need to 'upgrade' your routers bios with a custom one that supports wds |
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| I just don't see the point when you can upgrade the router for the same price and get faster speeds on top. |
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| true, in my experience a bad connection is a bad connection no matter what hardware you throw at it. I rather have a decent 54mbps connection than a poorer 300mbps, plus to get those speeds you'll need to upgrade the wireless cards/adapters too. I've only played with the netgear rangemax/mimo stuff and wasn't that impressed in a setup similar to the one described. I'd take the punt on an aerial or signal repeater method. |
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| Sorry but that's total rubbish. That's like saying if your engine blows up in your car that it will always be like it even if you change the engine. G is 3-4 years old technology. G+ N Mimo is newer, more powerful for better range and it's faster. They couldn't sell it if it wasn't, you can't just pump out the same technology under a new name. I have set up the belkin stuff countless times for customers and its worked like a dream when their G tech didn't. |
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