Rourter Boosting

Grilo · Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 6:32 pm Post subject: Rourter Boosting

Hello I have a SMC 7004VWBR and am wondering if there is a way to boost the signal in the house without needing another ap. The router is in the basement(parents computer) and mine is on the third floor. I have very weak signals and am wondering if there is a way to get more power or a stronger signal from the router. I searched the SMC site and the antenna on the router are fixed. I was thinking of wrapping some wire around the antenna and then taping it to the wall almost making the whole house the antenna. I have found several pages on how to make antenna but since the router's do not come off it is kinda of pointless. the card in my computer is a SMC 2802w g card and i could replace the antenna on it but that does not help the weak signal on the router.

any ideas?

Grilo
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adaptr · Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 6:49 pm Post subject:

Taping it to the wall ?
Whahaah only if your house is made entirely of metal, dude.
Seriously.
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Grilo · Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 7:10 pm Post subject:

I know that the whole house would have to be metal but having the wire higher would potientally increase the signal on the third floor, right?
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adaptr · Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 7:15 pm Post subject:

I'm no electronics experts, but since the functionality of an antenna is directly determined by its length (in waveforms), I suspect the sending wire has to meet certain criteria as well.
If the sending antenna has to be a multiple of the GHz wavelength of the carrier, changing its length may even make the signal worse.

In fact, you may depend on this - wireless antennae are used for both sending and receiving, so their length is definitely important.

The better solution would be to place the access point on a floor between the computers that need access, thus limiting the distance to either NIC.

BTW this seems a rather low-end access point / NIC, since I have run Netgear systems at work and I could walk straight out the building with a laptop - signal degradation, sure, but I still had a network!
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