[MLUG] Wireless Router

[a gardner]

You could build a geeky reflector, lots of plans on the internet.

Mines in the basement as well.




On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Jeremy <me at jeremychapman.info> wrote:

>  Chris O'Regan wrote:
>
>  Im looking for information relating to a good wireless router.
>
>
>  I bought a couple of refurbished Linksys 150Ns recently and ran into
> the same problem. Wireless-N was useless; my transfer rate would drop
> to 1 Mbps not matter what I did. Switching to wireless-G helped but
> only after I experimented with different channels. Though my signal
> quality is less than 55% I am getting a stable 54Mbps between the
> routers. The routers are configured using WDS.
>
> You can try boosting the output power but it is not recommended to
> push this too far as it will overheat the router. The best would be to
> upgrade the antennas.
>
>
> Chris
>
>  Get 2 old WRTs and use WDS. Wireless connection to upstairs, and you even
> can use the wired ports on upstairs router as if they were physically
> connected to downstairs router. Effectively an extender of both wired and
> wireless. You will have a small speed hit, but it is not much. I used this
> for years myself. Not to mention you can boost levels on WRTs and play with
> channels etc (maybe try that first, use a weird channel... may help).
>
> Jeremy
>
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