[Gllug] OT: Wireless signal solution recommendation

[Christopher Hunter]

On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 23:29 +0000, gvim wrote:
> I'm having trouble getting a friend's Netgear DG834 adsl2+ router, situated in the basemant, to connect to an iMac which is on the 5th floor. The house has very thick walls so can anyone recommend a signal booster/repeater solution? I read somewhere that an access point is different from a router but the article didn't specify that access points have better range.
> 
> gvim

I'm afraid that there's little chance of getting anything that'll work
wirelessly.  You could try power-line adaptors, but I've had some very
variable results with them.

Your only real solution is to run some Cat 5 cable up the building.  

I ran Cat 5 up a six storey building recently - the cable was run inside
the cavity wall and under some floorboards, so was concealed for most of
its length.  The whole job cost about £30 in parts, which included the
cable and the sockets for each end.  We've since installed additional
sockets so that the laptops can be used in several rooms.

C.

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