Router WiFi Question
 

I'll move this to tech talk soon...

For you techies out there...

I have DSL Internet coming in to my office. I have a couple hardlines coming off the router and wifi. One of the hard lines run about a hundred yards over to the house. Internet works fine where we connect that line to the commuter. However, the office wifi does not function well over at the house. What to do?

1. Booster signal/antenna of some sort

2. add another router over at the house and hook to the line already there to get the wifi

3. other?

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We had to get a bridge for downstairs, my office/man-cave is where the router is located is upstairs. The signal was so weak on my blue-ray player hooked to my TV (downstairs) that it would constantly cut out.

Since we have had the bridge it has worked just fine.

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Bridge? Kind of like a booster? Would this be something I could locate on the office roof with a directional pointed towards my 2 story house?

I'd try something like this:

Amped Wireless High Power Wireless-N Smart Repeater and Range Extender (SR300)
http://amzn.com/B004NBL9WK

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Hoovie something like these things.

http://wi-fi-booster-review.toptenreviews.com/

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routers need to be centralized. id hard wire it. set the one near modem as server or if you don't use it wirelessly turn it off

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you already have the line ran to the otherside

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I really wish I could understand this!

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Yes I have the line over there. Now what device do I buy to attach? Another router? I need wifi in both buildings.

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In order for a Router's wireless range to be effective it needs to be in a central location

Otherwise since you already have a network cable ran then just buy a second router and plug that cable into the new router

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I really appreciate all thes responses.

I guess there are several options...

Some would "boost" and "repeat" the signal while others would accomadate the hardline I already have in the house.

FWIW the router in the office generally has two or three devises on it - writes and wireless.

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Yes buy a second wireless router and just plug the cable into the new router. When you do this the router plugged into the modem needs to act as a DHCP server and the other one not.

Then assign IP range for other devices. You can google how to do it. I've done it at our church. In fact I have three routers, one is not wireless

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Great! That's what I had wondered. Now, doing this wont effect the other building (wired and wireless)? The signal would in effect be going through two routers.

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Hard wired you don't have to worry about signal loss due to being too far away or electric devices between routers or too many walls :-)

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One router (the new one) would simply send and receive your signal to the other router which "connects" you to the internet

Each router would have it's own passkey (it can be the same key) but each router should have a different name (ie Netgear1 and Netgear 2)

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Here is how
http://library.techguy.org/wiki/Conn...uters_together

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Thanks!

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No problem. It's fairly easy.

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Make sure the 2 wifi routers are on different channels even though you say you can't get a good signal from the house. I've been told that they should be at least 2 channels apart for best results.

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Actually, three channels if you want to make sure they do not overlap at all. So if one is on channel 1, the other should be on 4. I am the type to get into all our school access points and set the channels manually for best efficiency but if you don't want to mess with that (and most don't) just setting each router and AP to "auto" find a channel usually works just fine. I can't think of a case where 'auto' is not the default.

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That's what I did I think...not had a problem