Broadband dropping on outside connection (help needed)

shinny

Hi all, hoping you might be able to help me with this question.

My dad is trying to set up a music room in an old mobile home we have right outside the back of the house. He was going to move the router so it would be closer but I told him to try moving the box over to the window (so it would be in line) and see if it would work. It did, we got a two bar signal.

So now the problem, every time we connect out there it drops the Internet connection on the router (we get the red light on the box). Once you switch it off and back on again, it works until you try to connect out there again (it works in the rest of the house)

Anyone any ideas why this is happening and how we could fix?

Tks, Shinny

Spear

What kind of broadband is this that the router needs to be near the window?

shinny

It's a standard issued eircom netopia. It's a very old house (160+ yrs) and the walls are much much thicker than the houses built these days. Hence the trouble with getting an outside connection.

Putting it in line with the window helped pick up the connection but, as already explained, it keeps going to red.

Spear

Then I'm still confused by what's meant by outside connection. It's an ADSL line, being near the window shouldn't impact it?

shinny

It's wireless

Spear

So there's nothing wrong with the broadband connection at all? Have you tried changing the channels to avoid any interference?

shinny

Now I'm confused how do I do that?

You could also invest in a stronger antenna.

You can pick em up for a few bucks on amazon.

Spear

shinny wrote: »

Now I'm confused how do I do that?

It'll be on the router config page, probably at 192.168.1.254 or 192.168.1.1.

shinny

NoDrama wrote: »

You could also invest in a stronger antenna.

You can pick em up for a few bucks on amazon.

Yeh, I was thinking he might need a booster of some sort. I saw another thread on that in here earlier so I'll check that out. Thanks for the link.

shinny

Spear wrote: »

It'll be on the router config page, probably at 192.168.1.254 or 192.168.1.1.

Ok, tks. Will try that too.