Harry, I also live in a three story home, all the demarcation for TV, Internet and Phone is in the far NW corner of the downstairs, inside a distribution room. I have three networks due to work I do, Cable, DSL, and Satellite. The Cable network has many Airport Express units hanging off it, several to drive music throughout the home and three more to handle wireless printing to my ethernet printers that also need wireless printing.
Since all this is attached to the Cable Airport Extreme it does not have the range that the Airport Extreme using DSL or Satellite does. I can get good coverage throughout the three floors with the exception of a hall going to the garage which is on the NE corner of the home, I even get good coverage on the 3rd floor everywhere......WHEN I am on any of the networks OTHER than cable. I am sure the shorter range is because all the other items on that network. In the past I had used Airport Expresses to extend the range of the network but I had noticed a slowness so I called Apple and they stated that using the Expresses to extend the range will cut the performance in half by each Express designated as a range extender, I believe it. John On Jan 22, 2012, at 11:54 AM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer 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? > > > Thanks. > Harry Jacobson-Beyer > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
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