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On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Julian Hall wrote: > Hi All, > > I've uploaded a (rough) plan of my house with the placement of the > router shown to my webspace: > > http://www.kaotic.co.uk/house_layout.jpg > > Essentially I live in a brick-built dormer bungalow with cavity wall > insulation in the outer walls. I'm in a wheelchair so my bedroom is > downstairs next to my bathroom at the front of the house. The problem > is that in my bedroom (surprise!) I get excellent signal strength. > However by the time I take my laptop out the back garden (outside the > conservatory roughly 30-40 feet or so in a straight line) I get very > weak strength to the point the laptop can't resolve an IP off the > router's DHCP server. Previously I had a laptop with a Netgear PCMCIA > card which worked very well with a Netgear FWG114P router at the same > distance - obvious really as they were the same manufacturer. > > The current hardware is an Edimax BR6215SRg router and both laptops in > use have built-in wireless cards. > > The wall the router is shown against has a wardrobe, and I'm wondering > if an external aerial on top of the wardrobe would extend the range > enough to give me a decent signal. Forget extra antennae, etc. and get a 2nd Wi-Fi unit that can work in repeater mode and put it in the conservatory. Gordon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html