Improving Wireless network

[Raz316]

Hellooooo,

anyone got any tips for improving the connection quality of a wireless network? Anything I can either do to the computers or the router?

ta!

[unreal]

Same here, mine was good but now its always on low/very low :/

Thanks in advance...

[Raz316]

bah just noticed there is a connectivity forum. Sorry. Can a mod move this there?

[Raz316]

just found...
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/more...elesstips.mspx

[Mastertje]

Build some high dBi antenna and you'll have a 500% increase easily.

May I recommend 2 biloop antenna... http://home.wanadoo.nl/erwin.gijzen/biloop/ (yes... but if it aint dutch it aint much )

[unreal]

Whoa thanks for those, that Microsoft page is quite teh useful, and lol a custom antenna is actually very possible considering my dad is a radio communications technician

[unreal]

Whoa this is ultra weird. On my sig, you can sort of see that my computer is packed right in the desk there, and its bang on the wall. I moved the computer forward by about 10cm, and signal went from 'Very Low/No Signal" and 0%-6% signal strength to "Good/Very Good" at around 60% signal! I live in a Victorian house, so these walls are thicker than Jessica Simpson, I would guess that if I moved the base unit into the middle of the room the signal would shoot up even more.


WALLS R TEH ENEMEI!!

[SpawnofSonic]

I would guess that if I moved the base unit into the middle of the room the signal would shoot up even more.

It wuold do, but only to a degree, giving antena's space always improves things