How can I best increase my Internets signal strength without having access to the router?
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Hello. I live in an apartment with a shared router, and I'm just far enough away from it that my signal is weak. I thought I'd extend the signal a bit so I too can get some sweet, sweet internet juice. It's worth noting that the router is locked away in another room so I don't have access to it.
So, should I get a repeater and place it half-way between the router and my room? Or is the better option to get another router, place it in my room and then use it as a bridge, hooking my devices to it by Ethernet connection?
Wallpaper the walls that are furthest away from the router with tinfoil.
Talk to the network administrator and tell him to amp up the range, or get an Ethernet switch for your room.
[QUOTE=Pepsi-cola;48825397]Wallpaper the walls that are furthest away from the router with tinfoil.[/QUOTE]
two birds one stone, that'll keep [I]them[/I] out
[editline]4th October 2015[/editline]
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I'm living in an old house preserved from the 1700s so there's not a chance that I'm going to get an Ethernet port built into my room.
I can talk to the people I rent from, they're great guys, but the rent is so incredibly cheap (it was a really good deal!) and they do so much for me already that I'd get a bad conscience if I asked them to upgrade the internet or anything of that kind. IIRC the router has an antenna that's already pointed towards my room.
I think what I'll do is I'll swap place between my desk and my bed so that my computer and consoles face the wall with the strongest reception, then get a router that intercepts the signal where it's best in my room (which would be roughly here)
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/AK7a5Dj.jpg[/IMG]
Just imagine I swap the position of the bed and my desk so my computer is under there.
Good solution?
EDIT: So I won't have to move everything just for a better connection, what about this solution #2 instead. I attach a router to the bookshelf, and run an Ethernet-cable along the upper corner of the wall to the other side of my room. There I use my Network switch box to hook all my devices by Ethernet, without also having to sacrifice the decent connection in my bed where I sit on my laptop.
[QUOTE=Handsome Matt;48825620]How are you going to connect that router to the other router though? Connecting it via wireless is going to be shit[/QUOTE]
Wireless, yeah. Is it going to be shit even if it's placed in the one area of my room with a decent connection? (I assume there are some thick wooden beams in the walls everywhere but that one area, based on my phones wi-fi readings.)
That one spot in my room where I'd place my router:
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Right next to it: (And everywhere else in my room)
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[QUOTE=Handsome Matt;48825620]if you're going to do that, at least make sure they're running on different wireless channels.[/QUOTE]
How do I do that, and what would that even mean?
I am not good with the technologies and the modern gadgets and whatnot these kids today get off my lawn!
[QUOTE=Handsome Matt;48825925]Well, the main router looks like it's on channel 3, so if you're going to connect another router to it, make sure that router broadcasts on channel 11. Otherwise it'll create a lot of interference.[/QUOTE]
Cool! I'll try, and since I have an old router I won't have to buy anything.
If you could somehow get access to the physical router itself, a good bet would be a powerline ethernet adapter plugged straight into the router.
Though I've honestly never had too much trouble with repeaters as long as they're placed as close to the source as possible.
[QUOTE=fishyfish777;48827044]If you could somehow get access to the physical router itself, a good bet would be a powerline ethernet adapter plugged straight into the router.[/QUOTE]
I live in an 18th century manor. The router is located in the room of the landlords adopted son, which is in a segregated, walled-up part of the building.
There's not a chance in hell. :v:
you can make an aluminum foil antenna that will actually help.
as far as making a signal booster make something like this or something simpler like a half circle of foil behind the antenna and you aim it at the router... it's how satellite dishes work. they're just antennas that get a better signal by the big dish
[url]http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-WIFI-Antenna-Reception-Booster/[/url]
then you can download something like inSSIDer so you can really see the strength instead of just 4-5 bars. the strength is in -dbm and the closer to 0 the better. if it's a really new router you could also make sure your wireless receiver supports the fastest wifi type.
I asked my landlord and they literally went and bought me a new router and hooked it up in my room while I was away on vacation.
Goddamn they're too kind, gotta figure out something nice to do for them.
[QUOTE=mac338;48871920]I asked my landlord and they literally went and bought me a new router and hooked it up in my room while I was away on vacation.
Goddamn they're too kind, gotta figure out something nice to do for them.[/QUOTE]
Make them cookies.
Bring them women to make cookies
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