Looking to boost my wireless signal

Grawns

Hi

Anyone got a suggestion on what might work best to boost my signal

Currently have Irish broadband 2MB Breeze 24:1 and a Linksys broadband router wrt54gs

This works great within maybe 20 feet but I live in a georgian house ( 5 floors) so the signal disintegrates subsatially as I go up or downstairs. The house is run as a guesthouse so I need a good wireless signal to reach the guestrooms uptairs and my PS3 and laptop downstairs.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Am thinking about Linksys Wireless-G Range Expander WRE54G - repeater. Any opinions or advice?

bushy...

Range extenders would only be good if they can receive on one antenna and transmit on the other at the same time ( unlikely but i'm not sure) .... wireless is sad enough without adding to it.
Maybe a better idea would be to use a Netgear router & APs in extender mode for now , then when you have time run network cable to the APs on the upper floors.

Grawns

Interesting! thanks

dub45

Grawns wrote:

Interesting! thanks

The performance of wireless equipment is notoriously unpredictable and thats why it is so hard to get successful recommendations particularly for someone like yourself who is trying to cover 5 floors of a building with pretty thick walls presumably. I would say that it is a job for a professional and I doubt very much if one range extender is going to be the answer. I remember reading ages ago that that linksys model was very hard to set up.

dkane

Best thing would be to buy another couple of wireless access points and place them on the different floors and just run Cat5 between them.