Improving home wireless signal

[nirvana1963]

Hi All,
Firstly, I apologise for a) possibly repeating a topic that has been
discussed before and, b) not being technically minded, so please be gentle
with me.

I have a home desktop and laptop network at my house in Turkey. The house is
built of concrete and therefore, the wireless signal gets weak around the
house. I have a Draytek-Vigor 2800VG router and would like to improve my
signal. Do you guys have any ideas? And please in a language even I would
understand.

Regards

Ps. The laptop relies on its built in wireless card. The desktop is located
right next to the router.

[Dave]

On Feb 29, 9:30 am, "nirvana1963" <u41744@uwe> wrote:
> Hi All,
> Firstly, I apologise for a) possibly repeating a topic that has been
> discussed before and, b) not being technically minded, so please be gentle
> with me.
>
> I have a home desktop and laptop network at my house in Turkey. The house is
> built of concrete and therefore, the wireless signal gets weak around the
> house. I have a Draytek-Vigor 2800VG router and would like to improve my
> signal. Do you guys have any ideas? And please in a language even I would
> understand.
>
> Regards
>
> Ps. The laptop relies on its built in wireless card. The desktop is located
> right next to the router.

One thing you could do is distribute Internet around your home by
using power-line adapters instead of wireless adapters. These connect
from your Internet modem (cable or DSL or ADSL) to an electrical-power
outlet in your house and then in any other outlet in the house you
simply plug in an adapter, the other end of which is RJ45 (ethernet)
or USB to your PC. This would not give you the portability you are
looking for, but it is one way to solve the problem without running
lots of wires.

[dold@03.usenet.us.com]

nirvana1963 <u41744@uwe> wrote:
> I have a home desktop and laptop network at my house in Turkey. The house is
> built of concrete and therefore, the wireless signal gets weak around the
> house.

If you have some signal, a simple reflector on the router might make things
very good.

http://www.freeantennas.com EZ-12, printed on photo paper for thick stock,
with aluminum foil glued to the sail, provides a substantial boost in
signal. http://www.rahul.net/dold/clarence/EZ12-windsurfer.jpg

Make the tabs longer than the template drawing, for easier assembly.

--
Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley Lake, CA, USA GPS: 38.8,-122.5

[me here]

dold@03.usenet.us.com wrote:

> nirvana1963 <u41744@uwe> wrote:
> > I have a home desktop and laptop network at my house in Turkey. The
> > house is built of concrete and therefore, the wireless signal gets
> > weak around the house.
>
> If you have some signal, a simple reflector on the router might make
> things very good.
>
> http://www.freeantennas.com EZ-12, printed on photo paper for thick
> stock, with aluminum foil glued to the sail, provides a substantial
> boost in signal.
> http://www.rahul.net/dold/clarence/EZ12-windsurfer.jpg
>
> Make the tabs longer than the template drawing, for easier assembly.

The other thing you could do is raise the router/antenna up higher to
get better signal distribution.

As suggested by Clarence, the best effect is gained by making the
antenna directional towards the area where the client (laptop) is going
to be sited.

My antenna reflector design and basic signal information may also be of
interest below.

http://users.picknowl.com.au/~gloaming_agnet/ant1.html

Cheers

Rob



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