Stairsnpairs
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Hi. I have a situation in which I require some advice, please.
Basically, I have a house. I have a router located on the 2nd floor, front of the house. Throughout the house, the signal is excellent, with the speeds at 150Mbps. However, I have a shed in the backyard with a computer in it, and it does not receive an acceptable signal.
I have a cable modem connected to a router. I'm receiving 8Mbps downstream, 2Mbps upstream by my ISP. Confirmed by all three computers in house, connected wirelessly. The router does not have external antennas, and is set in b/g/n mode @ 2.4GHz, 20/40MHz bandwidth. I would move the router to the center of the house, however, with my current setup, it isn't feasible.
The computer in the shed contains a wireless PCI card, with two standard external antennas. Signal strength is good. However, the speed jumps from 15 Mbps to 60 Mbps constantly, usually it's at 15Mbps. In the house, the computer was at 150Mbps. Surfing the internet is fine sometimes, but, it d/c sometimes, and anything requiring medium to heavy network traffic is out of the question on this computer. Speedtest.net stated that this computer is at less than 1 Mbps down, upload speed is normal, after repeated tests in the shed. If I move the computer into the house, where it was previously, speeds are back to normal, and everything is perfect, as it was before I moved it.
I searched heavily on the internet, and in this forum, for repeater advice and higher gain antennas.
This is a rough sketch of my house lol
With my current setup, do you think it wise to purchase a wireless repeater, and place it in the grey spot in the picture to relay the signal? Will a repeater keep the speed 150Mbps speed and relay it? Or would it be more practical to purchase better antennas for the PCI card?
Thanks in advance for your assistance.
Basically, I have a house. I have a router located on the 2nd floor, front of the house. Throughout the house, the signal is excellent, with the speeds at 150Mbps. However, I have a shed in the backyard with a computer in it, and it does not receive an acceptable signal.
I have a cable modem connected to a router. I'm receiving 8Mbps downstream, 2Mbps upstream by my ISP. Confirmed by all three computers in house, connected wirelessly. The router does not have external antennas, and is set in b/g/n mode @ 2.4GHz, 20/40MHz bandwidth. I would move the router to the center of the house, however, with my current setup, it isn't feasible.
The computer in the shed contains a wireless PCI card, with two standard external antennas. Signal strength is good. However, the speed jumps from 15 Mbps to 60 Mbps constantly, usually it's at 15Mbps. In the house, the computer was at 150Mbps. Surfing the internet is fine sometimes, but, it d/c sometimes, and anything requiring medium to heavy network traffic is out of the question on this computer. Speedtest.net stated that this computer is at less than 1 Mbps down, upload speed is normal, after repeated tests in the shed. If I move the computer into the house, where it was previously, speeds are back to normal, and everything is perfect, as it was before I moved it.
I searched heavily on the internet, and in this forum, for repeater advice and higher gain antennas.
This is a rough sketch of my house lol
With my current setup, do you think it wise to purchase a wireless repeater, and place it in the grey spot in the picture to relay the signal? Will a repeater keep the speed 150Mbps speed and relay it? Or would it be more practical to purchase better antennas for the PCI card?
Thanks in advance for your assistance.
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