I'm not sure I can explain this right, I'm not
real savy to all the terminoligy you guys use
but, here it goes. We have three different desktops
in the house and two of them are upstairs and
of course mine, ( the one with all the
problems) is downstairs on the other side of the
house prolly 50 or 60 feet apart. But the
router(upstairs) should have a signal distance of 300
feet. I keep getting a weak signal (1mbps). The
other 56mbps card gets around 24mbps(upstairs as well
but in a different room)
Are the walls and floor keeping the signal
from comming through or do I need to get a
booster of some sort?
callbob,
yes, you appear to be right about the
walls/floor interferring with the signal. I have
the same problem at my house trying to access
with my laptop. When i am approx. 100-150 feet
from router i get nothing. this has been a
pain because i got the router to be able to
do stuff from my room but i barely get a
signal. Anyways... you have a few options... you
could buy a range extender. you could try
moving the router to a more central location in
your house if that is possible, or you'll just
have to live with the endless frustration of
sometimes having a signal and sometimes not having
one!
Just a thought. Most AP's radiate their signal
perpendicular to the antenna. The vertical beam will
usually be very narrow. If you were on the same
vertical plane as the AP you would see an
improved signal regardless of how many walls. Try
angling the antenna slightly downwards so it is a
right angle to an imaginary line between it and
your desktop PC.
