I have an L shaped house.
At the corner of the L is my router and modem on the ground floor. I've been living with poor wireless reception so I bought an old WRT54g from PCworld (it was new, but an old hardware version - I got 'em to reduce it to £25, so I didn't care) and stuck my new PC at the top of the L on the second floor. Far corner of the room! I also put a 5dbi gain aerial on it, as it would have been stuck behind a thick wooden desk.
Unfortunately it seems that my wireless is registering as 2 bars on windows zero service(?) bar & is around -190dBm on net stumbler...
Not so good.
No matter where I move my aerial, unless I balance it on a fine Korean stationary box at the very edge of my desk can I get a decent signal. Is there any point upgrading either the two aerials on the linksys or the one on the receiving PC?
I hacked the firmware and stuck the power output to max (84mw) but this made no difference!


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