Thought I would just send you all a quick update now I finally had time to play...
I moved my wireless router back above the door to my office where the old box was. Velcro does the trick, excellent suggestion! I amso asked my work IT goys to check the wireless on the VPN box was off (since I never use it) so it should not be causing any interference. Using my Dell D400 running Ubuntu 8.10 from the dining room I get a signal strength between 60% and 70% all the time. I can pick up only one other network and it is on a different channel and a very weak signal. So that should not be causing any problems. My wife's Compaq WinXP machine however still had trouble. So then I enabled broadcasting the ESSID. Wife's machine is instantly happy. Not such a good signal as I get with my laptop but at least it connects now and though it often drops the connection it seems to be able to pick it up again pretty quick. I am still unsure why that machine should find it so much more difficult to get a signal compared to when we used my old router, but c'est la vie I suppose. Maybe I should invest in a 802.11n card or USB dongle for her with RangeMax, that may make a difference. Thanks to everyone for the many helpful suggestions. Rich 2008/11/11 Richard Danter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi again, > > New thread, different problem. :) > > My wife is having real problems getting a network connection from our > dining room. That is less than 10m from the router! I know we have > solid walls (it's a '60's house so not much plasterboard, unlike > modern houses) but this is rather pathetic. > > Problem is really since I got my new Netgear router. The old one was > much less powerful but I was able to screw it to the wall just above > the door to my office and though the signal was not great it was > reasonably stable in the dining room. The new router has to sit on a > shelf since it does not have any screw holes. I am thinking that maybe > I could put a shelf above the door, and maybe that is a good way to > go, but I wonder what else I can do. > > Can't only be me with solid walls, any other suggestions. Don't really > fancy running a wire to the dining room since it is opposite side of > the house so would mean going up between the ceiling and upstairs > floor, and kind of makes the whole idea of wireless pointless. > > The other thing I thought about was placing the router more central in > the house, but I use all 4 of the wired ports on the back too and it > would mean a very long wire from the cable modem (and 4 more back to > my other boxes). Also the wired connections are Gigabit and long wires > are not ideal. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks > Rich > -- Please post to: [email protected] Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
