Plaster walls

I have installed a small wireless network in an older home which has inner
walls constructed of Plaster and wood lath, rather than drywall. After
passing through three of these walls, the signal from the linksys G type
router was very weak at the PC. Just one bar in strength, out of five. As a
result the PC's ability to get online was marginal. I installed a Linksys
signal extender, which increases signal strength at the PC to 4 or sometimes
even 5 bars, correcting the situation. My question is, can I attribute this
low signal strength to the impermeability of these walls, or is there
another likely explanation. Thanks in advance....... Dick M.

Dick Mahar wrote:
> I have installed a small wireless network in an older home which has inner
> walls constructed of Plaster and wood lath, rather than drywall. After
> passing through three of these walls, the signal from the linksys G type
> router was very weak at the PC. Just one bar in strength, out of five. As a
> result the PC's ability to get online was marginal. I installed a Linksys
> signal extender, which increases signal strength at the PC to 4 or sometimes
> even 5 bars, correcting the situation. My question is, can I attribute this
> low signal strength to the impermeability of these walls, or is there
> another likely explanation. Thanks in advance....... Dick M.
>
>

Walls are the bane of wireless. I discovered that if I directed my
router antennas at 45 degrees, pointing at the stairwell in the basement
room the router sits in, I have decent signal and S/N ratio on all three
floors of my heavily walled house. You should experiment a bit.

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