Harry, If it were me I would run an ethernet cable from the main router to the back of the house and put in another wireless access point. It's easier and more reliable from a wireless point of view, but running that cable might be the hard part.
If you have a basement or a crawl space that you can run the cable the length of the house, it would be fairly easy to put a ethernet jack in the wall next to your router, run the cable down in the wall into the basement and then across the ceiling, floor joists, or whatever you have in your basement, and back up to a wall plate in the back of the house where you plug in your WAP. Such a solution would use inexpensive parts and be the most reliable. The feasibility equation would depend entirely on how your house is laid out and how badly you want wireless in the back of your house. j. On Jan 22, 2012, at 12:00 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer <[email protected]> wrote: > I live in a 3 story victorian era home. > > The front part of the house is separated from the back part by an 18" thick > brick wall (of course there are doors between the front and back sections. > > There are only 2 rooms on the third floor both over the front part of the > house. > > My internet connection (Bellsouth DSL connected to a Cisco/Linksys wireless > routher) comes in to the house in the front room on the second floor. > > I receive a good signal (3 bars) in the front rooms on the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd > floors. The 3rd floor has only two rooms. I receive an ok signal (2 bars) in > the back room on the 3rd floor and a good signal in the 2nd floor room > immediately behind the front room. > > For the back part of the house it's a different story. > > In the two back rooms on the second floor I receive an ok signal and in the > 2nd room on the 1st floor I get an ok signal but in the other two rooms (the > ones on the other side of the 18" brick wall) on the 1st floor I don't get > any wireless signal at all. > > Is there anything I can do to get a wireless signal to the back of my house > to improve the signal I receive on the first floor and to get the signal to > the back two rooms and deck on the first floor? >
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