[Gllug] [OT] Extended coverage wireless routers

[amd_uk]

I've been lurking here for a while, and I've probably messed the actual 
posting mechanism up, but I thought I'd chime in on this one.
You don't give any details about your physical wireless network, is the 
laptop 3 feet away with clear line of sight or 30 feet away through 7 
walls ? What's around that could be interfering with the signal - I had 
wireless drop-out when I had a computer  turned on near the AP which was 
solved by moving  them apart a few feet. Cordless phones can also 
interfere, along with other APs nearby and this isn't even touching on 
the actually building itself.
You could use another AP in wireless-bridge mode if both APs support it, 
to extend the range of the wireless signal. I recently bought a WRT-54GL 
and use it to bridge upstairs and downstairs, this should allow more 
coverage but without knowing the details of how your wireless network is 
laid out, it's difficult to make suggestions

As I understand it, MIMO uses more channels and tries to bounce the 
radio waves around the house by having differently aligned antenna on 
the AP which should, in theory, allow the wireless signal to cover more 
area and circumvent most holes in the coverage that a single antenna may 
generate (can you generate a hole ?)

As for pre-N, leave it alone - most of the things I've read say that the 
gain isn't really worth it and it threatens to be a 54g repeat where, 
iirc, there were two different implementations of pre-G (or am I getting 
my v.90/K56flex/X2 mixed up again ?)




Andrew Davies.



Leo Hickey wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My laptop has an 802.11g connection, and with my current setup I get 
> frequent dropped connections. If I get one of the wireless routers 
> which claim extended coverage eg Netgear rangemax etc, will this make 
> any difference to the quality of the signal if I connect with 802.11g 
> rather than their proprietary protocol (pre-n or whatever). In other 
> words is the extended coverage tied to the protocol being used or will 
> I still get a better connection with an extended coverage router even 
> if I'm still using 11g?
>
> TIA

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