First thing to do is download Netstumbler and run it on a portable to diagnose what other networks are close to you and what channels they are on. It will also graph the signal to noise ratio as you move around the house. You can then quickly pick a 'clear' channel and see if that makes any difference.
If you have any portable house phones they can squelch the WiFi signal so try turning them off (batteries/psu out) and check with Netstumbler. High gain antennas will boost the signal significantly - you can buy them quite cheaply off eBay to suit your router. A 9db passive antenna should give you all the extra power you need. WiFi signals are absorbed by metal so try and put the SB away from metal equipment racks or other metal objects. Modern gas fires have a metal liner all the way up the chimney and this will certainly kill your signal. If all else fails buy a couple of 85mbps Devolo Home Plugs and use your mains circuit as a hard wired ethernet. I use these for Wifi blackspots but they are also far better and provide faster transmission than WiFi. A 54g WiFi network, with security switched on, will typically give you 14 - 15 mbps at best. I have 4 clients on a Home Plug network and each is running at between 50 and 70 mbps as I type this. Until you understand the problem buying a new Router will probably not give you any improvement. Besides which the full N spec routers will be available by the end of the year and will not be backward compatible to pre N, MIMO and other cynical marketing ploys. Best wait as the N routers will run at 240mbps (true throughput about 60-80 mbps) and will support video streaming. -- Heuer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Heuer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2543 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26393 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
