[Jeewhizz]

Due to the layout of my house, and the siting of my wireless router (upstairs) there isn't much wireless signal downstairs. This is due to the central heating tank that is in the way.

I am not interested in running ethernet cables from the office to somewhere suitable downstairs as it's going to be a big job.

So my options are:

1) Ethernet over powerlines to the study downstairs. I can then plugin my spare Linksys wireless router, and use that for wireless downstairs
2) Buy something like this: http://www.netgear.co.uk/wallplugged...er_wgxb102.php - Does anyone have any experience with this?

What do we reckon?

Cheers!

[CPLTD]

Originally Posted by Jeewhizz

Due to the layout of my house, and the siting of my wireless router (upstairs) there isn't much wireless signal downstairs. This is due to the central heating tank that is in the way.

I am not interested in running ethernet cables from the office to somewhere suitable downstairs as it's going to be a big job.

So my options are:

1) Ethernet over powerlines to the study downstairs. I can then plugin my spare Linksys wireless router, and use that for wireless downstairs
2) Buy something like this: http://www.netgear.co.uk/wallplugged...er_wgxb102.php - Does anyone have any experience with this?

What do we reckon?

Cheers!

We stock these netgear extenders and they are a great solution for your problem buddy I have a set of these at home for which I havent experienced any problems just plug in and go the great thing is they work with any brand of router not just netgear, If you get stuck and need a pair give me a shout on Tuesday and I will sort you a good price for them Khalid

[johnsmith23]

You could get a high gain usb network card. Very effective and cheap.

[Lions Den Computers]

I favour the high-gain antenna approach first, then the range extender from CP. My brother used a high-gain and we went from my old flat (802.11g cited in the hallway - an upstairs flat) through the block, across the road, into his house and then bedroom. It worked flawlessly until new building work started on the house next door. Every time a lorry parked outside the signal flatlined!

[Always-PC]

Those Netgear extenders work really well for sending your network over power cables (as long as everything is on one circuit) - you could then plug a wireless access point into the extender.

Linksys do a nice "wireless repeater" that are a total nightmare to setup and will probably take you a few hours to decide to send them back to the supplier. A great bit of kit if only they worked well.

Higher end access points / wireless routers usually have an external antenna option which I use here on a Zyxel Zywall 5 - I can still get a reliable signal 3 or 4 houses away.