Duplex house needs Internet connection.

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we are trying AJ but he makes it impossible for us to help as he will not listen to advice that he does not like.

I will no longer help him then.

 

Unfortunately, there are no lifts mate.

 

I wish... I have two APs to cover my three-bedroomed Victorian-era terraced house. I'm convinced there's some sort of lead lining within the chimney towards the rear, as all forms of radio signals just disappear around there.

The upside is, it did give me a very good excuse to buy a drum of Cat5e and cable the entire house

 

It could be down to lime which can affect it. My house was built in 1708 and the walls are full of lime, I also live in a valley. As a result I barely get a mobile signal let alone a wifi signal. Instead I use a 2m cat5e cable which I got for £2 from a place that makes cables of all types.

 

quoted from kobem:
"i wasn't concerned with their compatibility. My curiousity was whether n router would adapt itself to the
g laptops and cos possibility of performance decrease."

like i said as long as the router is running 2.4 then the g rated machine will still be able to use the information but it will not be as fast as an n rated card. My wife's dad has an n rated laptop and that gets around 300 mps but her brother has a g rated one and off the same router it gets around 100 - 130 mps. So your g rated machine will still take all the information but the card will bottle neck it as it can't accept as much information as fast as the n rated card ( but will still work fine). is this a clear enough explanation? all the router does is transmit the information it's up to the card to recieve it.

 

hey mate, what you are explaining is valid if 802.11n router is supported with dual-band i think. Both 2.4 and 5 GHz
i mean.

 

My wired modem broke down today.Its power LED. I had been making a research for about 4 months. Today i bought WAG120n wireless dsl modem/router. I set it up. Now, i can connect to the internet at the same time both wirelessly and wired when these laptops are too close to modem/router. However, our new home is a duplex one. I placed my wireless modem/router on top floor. I tried one of my laptops on top floor and the other at lower. Between two floors, there is a wooden stairs, when i go down that stairs and go further, signal decreased quickly. In addition, i lost Internet connection. My main concern was getting connected to the Internet from my room(at lower floor) while modem is placed on top floor. Right now, this failed.

In this case, where should i place that modem/router?

 

+1 or can't you get a unit (like a booster) to sit at the top of the stairs and retransmit the signal again so you aren't so far away from a decent source

 

Edited out, Bad me

 

Careful...

 

Well logically yiu should try and get the router to be more cental in the house thus giving a more even coverage with the wireless signal. Is it not possible to get it in the middle floor maybe? Sounds like you are going to need to extend wiring in some fasion to do this (telephone extension to allow the router in a different place?).

As has already been suggested though, powerline network adapters usually work well and is an easy way to extend your network.

 

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Thats a negative mate. PM on its way...

 

I believe you already bought a Wifi router, and are having problems with its signals getting weak at the ground floor, what you should do is get a range enhancer something like WRE54G you can plug it in at a location where you think the signals start breaking (the breaking point, something like between floors/stairs or close to stairs) this will enhance the range of your router to ground floor and you would be able to use it at your ground floor . of course you can hire a Cisco service rep and get the work done faster as they will have devices to check where the problem is and survey the best location for the router