Recently I set up a wi-fi LAN for some friends. It works OK within rooms adjacent to the one where the Linksys WRT54g router is, but one room further, which is where they want to spend time working on laptops, the signal is so weak they cannot communicate reliably. (I measured it with inSSIDer on my laptop.)
There is no easy/clean way to pull a Cat-5 cable between the base and usage rooms, and they do not want to set up a repeater in the room in-between, for aesthetic reasons.
I had first thought to get an 802.11n router, but from what I'm reading now, it seems they provide better throughput but not better range.
This is more a wall problem than a distance problem - the distance is less than I can cover in my home with my WRT54g, but there are more walls in-between, and they have foil-covered insulation. However I have another friend with a two-year-old draft-n router that covers his whole two-story house.
So I'm looking for solutions ...
- 802.11n router with better range (does such a thing exist?)
- Better antennas on WRT54g?
- other suggestions?
Grateful for any advice.
Bob
There is no easy/clean way to pull a Cat-5 cable between the base and usage rooms, and they do not want to set up a repeater in the room in-between, for aesthetic reasons.
I had first thought to get an 802.11n router, but from what I'm reading now, it seems they provide better throughput but not better range.
This is more a wall problem than a distance problem - the distance is less than I can cover in my home with my WRT54g, but there are more walls in-between, and they have foil-covered insulation. However I have another friend with a two-year-old draft-n router that covers his whole two-story house.
So I'm looking for solutions ...
- 802.11n router with better range (does such a thing exist?)
- Better antennas on WRT54g?
- other suggestions?
Grateful for any advice.
Bob