Re: extending range: torn between "expensive but supposedly safe" and "risky, but cheap and geekishly rewarding" "DanS" <t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t@a.d.e.l.p.h.i.a.n.e.t> ha scritto nel messaggio
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> "Swann" <swann@tempsperdu.fr> wrote in
> news:ejcoqs$vsr$1@registered.motzarella.org:
>
>> with my former ISP, I used a wireless router that served the three PCs
>> in the three bedrooms of my house. since we moved to another ISP
>> lately, and they couldn't mount their so-called "home access gateway"
>> (basically a wired router) where the old router was, they had to put
>> it in our living room.
>
> And why couldn't they put it where the other one was ? Move it.
cannot. it has to stay in the living room because it also needs to be wired
to the tv set. besides, we changed the phone lines and the router must now
dial from the main socket, which is in that room.
furthermore, to answer john navas, I can't actually move my access point
back, because another flatmate (who didn't use the net before) only gets a
good signal from its CURRENT position. so, we either use a repeater, or we
switch to a new, more powerful, access point. it's a, b, or c as I explained
before.
thanks,
Swann |