Boost Wireless Signal Knowledge Base
Is there a way to boost wireless signal for an in-house network? I just moved into a new townhouse and the wireless signal inside the house is very weak. My cell phone signal (both Sprint and AT&T phones) is weak, and also the wireless signal on my computer trying to pick up the wireless router is weak unless we are right next to the router. Can anyone suggest a solution to boost a wireless signal inside my house? Thanks, Brian
How do I boost my wireless signal? I have wireless internet, but when I am using a laptop at the opposite end of my house from the router, I get no signal. The router I have is a Wanadoo Livebox. I can't move the router because it is plugged into the only phone socket in the house. Is there a way I can boost the signal? Do I have to buy something extra?
How to boost wireless signal to get on ps3 network? Ok so I live right across from my Mamaw and papaws they have wifi. I can get like 20% wifi from their house with my ps3,but that's not enough to do anything! So my question is how can I boost the signal so it will reach my house with maybe 50% or 40% signal! Please help I wanna play online
Will running a ethernet cable from my laptop boost wireless signal? I saw on a youtube video if you wrap a ethernet cable around a cell phone and put it in a homemade satalite dish it will pick up wireless signals better. i was wondering if this has any truth or if theres any quick tips to boosting my wireless signal to my laptop (i dont have a router right now, im using the neighbors and its not too strong of a signal)
How to boost my wireless signal? I have a BT Home Hub with two Ethernet cable outlets and a wireless aerial. One Ethernet cable is running to my Desktop and the second cable (all 30 meters of it) is connected to my PS3 on the second floor. My laptop uses the wireless aerial. My signal strength on the second floor is 1/5 bars for my laptop. Would it be possible to connect a piece of hardware to the second ethernet cable, such as another router to boost my wirless signal up-stairs. Thanks.
How can i boost my wireless signal withouth spending a lot of money? I have a laptop with an integrated wireless card and the signal is not bad, Im just looking for a way to boost it. One of my friends told me he used tin foil and something else to create his own wireless signal apmlifier/booster. He said this really helped his signal. Anybody have any advice or heard the idea mentioned?
How can one boost a wireless signal they are getting on their laptop? I can pick up a "belkin 54g" signal from somewhere near my house. its public and ive never received a complaint for using it. Is there anyway (or anything i can use) to boost the signal? it has a bad tendency to go "local only" or disappear completely for a few minutes at a time, which becomes real annoying when doing online work.
How to boost wireless signal? Hey guys I'm about 40 feet away from the router a few rooms away. Its just a cheap belkin router I bought a few months ago. I get connected at one bar, and it keeps dropping the signal every 15 mins or so. How would I boost the signal without moving the router or my computer?
How can I boost my wireless signal? I have a wireless BT homehub and live about 100 m away from my sister who wants to connect via my network. The signal is not very strong. Any tips for boosting it, as its between thicki walls with alot of interferance from other wireless networks. Any help would be greatly recived Thanks muchly :D
How can I boost my wireless signal to connect to hotspots? I have a hotspot right by where I live but I can only get a signal to it every so often so I wanted to know if there is anything I can buy for my laptop to help boost my signal so I can pick up the hotspot to be able to log onto the internet from my home? I have windows vista
How do i boost my wireless signal? i have all my gear (ps3,360,wii) set up in a shed. theres one problem with that, the wireless signal does not seem to be getting through i can only get signal when the roller door is up which is a pain in the ass and even then the signal isnt great. is there anyway to boost my wireless signal and get it working like it used to??
How to boost a wireless internet signal.? My son lives on one side of the street and I on the other. I am wanting to be able to use my internet at his house as well. How can I boost the signal from my house so it will reach his house for wireless internet. I know that I will have to buy a better modem for his houst, but I am still wanting to boost the signal so ther will be no drop outs.
What will boost my wireless signal? I have a router in my business, which is about 150 feet away from a rental house and the signal does not reach the house. It's a DSL router. How can I boost the signal strength and increase the range, so the house can have internet?
anyone know how to boost wireless internet signal? got bt broadband , have no phone line in my house ,(a granny annex on my parents house) have a hub in their house and work my wireless lap top from there signal , it is very up and down always losing connection,is there anyway of boosting the signal?
Is there a way to boost my wireless signal? I have wireless internet where I live that everyone in the house pulls off of. Even though the router is right underneath my computer (in basement) I get the worst signal. We have guessed its because my computer is also above all the ducts and piping. Is there a way to get my signal higher?
How do I boost my wireless signal on my laptop? I have a wireless b/g internet card (internal) in my laptop but am having trouble picking up wireless networks around my new apartment. Is there a way to boost the range of my laptop so I can find and connect to them?
Need to boost wireless signal reception? My apartment bldg. has free wifi to residents, they have a passcode that they give out. However from my apartment the signal is weak, what is good device to use for grabbing a stronger signal besides going to the office? My laptop does have an internal card. I think I am needing some kind of external booster to grab a stronger signal from them.
How can I boost my wireless signal strength? downstairs is where the router is plugged into the internet and my computer is up in my room. I got a netgear rangemax router downstairs and a dynex adapter in my room connected to my computer. Im only getting 3 out of 5 bars for my signal strength on my computer. How can I boost this to 4 or 5 bars for signal strength?
How do I boost my Wireless Signal at home? (AT&T DSL)? Our house is decently sized, so it seems the wireless signal is dying and is not strong enough. I've lived in a bigger house and had a LinkSys work pefectly from all around the house. We moved and I signed up for AT&T DSL. They send a 2Wire brand wireless router to install. How do I boost the signal so my roommates can get a signal from their rooms? They're using MacBook Pros... I'm NOT running a LinkSys router anymore...wish I was : ) I'm using a 2Wire brand router that AT&T uses for their service. There are no antennas on it. it's just a box...
How do I boost the wireless signal reception on my laptop? Any laptop but mine receives the signal from the router without any problems. Mine on the other hand doesn't receive it at all. Is there any sort of solution to enhance the reception on my laptop? PS: I cannot modify anything to do with the router.
How can I boost this wireless signal? I am trying to transmit a signal from a wireless camcorder that goes to a receiver hooked up to a computer or T.V. that plays the video feed live. I am having a hard time getting a picture from certain distances such as 50 feet away. I'm hoping to find a way to make the signal stronger. I'm open to buying whatever it may be. Thanks for your help.
How can i boost my wireless signal? Currently i have a linksys BEFW11S4, and i have trouble getting a connection 1 floor down. (this is where my playstation3 system is located). Im thinking about buying a linksys HGA7t High Gain antenna, but do not know how effective this will be. If there is any way to get a simple cost effective way to get a strong signal 1 floor down, please help.
how to boost wireless signal? i have a netgear and belkin wireless router for internet i tried both of them but the signal from the router to my room is low just 2 bar will this affect the internet speed and how can i boost the signal up?
how do I boost a wireless modem's signal through a ceiling of concrete and plaster? I got one of those little rectangular things that you plug into the back of your computer to get a wireless signal, but I live in the basement, under a little under a foot of concrete, I can't get a signal. Also, if I were to get something to boost it, say a wire connecting it, where would it go? and how would it connect from the modem to my computer?
how to Boost Wireless signal!? In my workplace, where i have to sit i dont get any wireless signal. BUT if i walk literally 10 yards forward, i get full signal. So im trying to think of a way to relay the signal towards me, or boost the reception from my laptop. its a sunday so all the shops are closed, and i cant really afford to buy much. i cant access the router physically to move it either. Any suggestions?
How do I boost the signal of my wireless network in weak areas? I have a wireless network in the house but the signal is very weak in rooms furthest from the wireless router. The router cannot be moved either. How can I boost the signal in those weak rooms? What are my choices? Thanks. Is there some kind of amplifying device I can get?
Can I boost wireless internet signal? My roommate and I use the public wireless unsecured networks in our neighborhood, but lately the signal strength has dropped off dramatically. (We live in a part of Silicon Valley where there are public networks everywhere.) Can we buy a device that will the improve signal strength of unsecured wireless networks?
Which product should I buy to boost my wireless signal? Hi there, I've previously had advice on both of these types of products individually, but now I find myself asking which of these two products best suits what I need - a range extender to help boost my signal throughout my house or a directional/omnidirectional antenna to help focus my signal more clearly. Here are the specifics of my connection setup; A wireless netgear router through Virgin Media delivering speeds up to 20MB, without the option of installing phone lines (fibre optics instead). This wireless connection is needed to service 9 computers/laptops throughout our house. The router is confined to being kept in the kitchen on the bottom floor. Currently the two bottom floor bedrooms receive decent signal and the bedroom at the top of the first flight of stairs has ok signal too. However, the remaining six bedrooms in the house (3 middle, 3 top) get very little to no reception. Clearly we want to change this so that all 9 bedrooms individually recieve good wireless signal for average internet usage. We have three main options we are considering here to resolve our issue, it would be great if people could recommend which option was the best, or a combination of two, if any at all ! 1 - purchase a range extender/access point to be set up on the middle floor in the hope of boosting the wireless signal from the router throughout the entire house - the product I was considering purchasing was an Edimax EW-7416APn. It has pretty good reviews and seems to be cheaper than equally useful alternatives? 2 - Purchase some sort of antenna to be set up in the kitchen downstairs to focus the wireless signal upwards through the floor in the hope of extending the signal throughout the house. The product I had in mind was the ProSafeĀ® 7 DBI Omni-Directional Antenna from Netgear or something along those lines. Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated. 3 - After a conversation with Virgin Media, they claim that our router can only provide signal for up to 4 computers anyway and suggested we upgrade to 50MB broadband which they claim will solve both problems. However, I don't actually believe that our current set-up will only provide for four computers anyway? Probably just trying to eek money out of us. Okay, those are the resolutions we have currently researched into. If anyone can recommend any of the above for our particular situation that would be great. On top of all of this, I myself have purchased two USB flashdrives from Netgear that are supposed to boost wireless signal pickup anyway; one for my laptop, one for my xbox. Not sure if those will work. We are all stumped, and being students, are too tight with cash to be experimenting on what option works the best. Thanks for reading all of this if you have, please leave anything you think may be useful to us!!
What are some good products to boost a wireless Internet signal? I have qwest dsl and wireless Internet but it had to be set up in another house I own and the one I want to have Internet in has a metal roof. One part of the house gets decent signal enough to play online games without lag etc. however the rest of the house has no signal. and I was wondering if there was something I could buy to send the signal throughout the rest of the house with the metal roof
Trying to boost wireless signal, can I use another router or somehow use a TV aerial? I live in a four storey house and my router is on the bottom floor. Mine and my sisters laptops and computers are on the top floors and the wireless signal is very weak. Is there anyway to boost the signal by plugging other stuff? I'm currently using the Speedtouch 580 wireless router and have a D-Link router and a strong TV aerial to play around with. This might be totally impossible to use either but it's really annoying me and would like to know if it is. Thank you.
how to boost wireless-n signal, with a WRT160N router, and WUSB300N? Hi i have a WRT160N router, 2 floors below the computer im on now, is there anything i can buy to boost the wireless N signal up to the WUSB300N (usb adapter) for my old wireless-G network i use to use the WRE54G. (wireless-g expander) but i dont think there is such a thing for wireless-N.. what can i do?
Will this boost the wireless signal my netbook RECIEVES? So I'm looking at this on eBay and just want to make sure it is what I want b4 I buy. I have a acer aspire one notebook and am currently receiving 1-2 bars. If I get and install this will it boost the signal I RECEIVE? http://cgi.ebay.com/Linksys-Wireless-USB-Network-Adapter-WUSB100-Wifi-G_W0QQitemZ330321481981QQcategoryZ45002QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp2773.m263QQ_trkparmsZalgo%3DSIC%26itu%3DUCI%252BIA
How do I boost My Wireless Routers signal? I have a D-Link WBR-1310 and my PCI Adapter WDA 1230. I want to boost it because my connection is extremely slow. SLOWER THAN DIAL-UP! Please don't suggest buying an amplifier or using foil. Thank you.
Can I boost the wireless card signal for my laptop? It has problems keeping the signal.? I use a Linksys 802.11 g wireless card to connect to the internet via wireless router. But my wireless card looses the signal about every 10 seconds, and is gone for a few seconds before coming back on again. This doesn't sound like much of a problem, but it can be really frustrating moving from one page to another, and I frequently loose e-mails when the signal continously goes out. I don't think a "wireless hotspot" or proximity to the router is the issue, because even when the computer and card is right next to the router, the signal still goes out. Is this a problem that can be fixed, and how?
Any way i can boost my wireless signal? My dads wireless router is like a football field away and I'm in my moms house (divorced and still like 100 yards away, how ironic?) but anyways i get signal but no bars on my xbox 360. and anyone who plays on live knows a signal that bad is just no good. i was just wondering is there any thing i could do (besides unplug our wireless phone) to get a better signal?
Boost wireless signal with wire? Can you attach a wire to your desktops wireless card and run it to something metal like you can with a radio or tv antenna? Or is there any other free way to potentially pick up more networks?
Get my wireless from the city can i boost signal to laptop? I'm in South Texas and they have internet here city-wide. My computer recognizes the signal however it will not pull it in very often and when it does its very slow. Is there anything I can buy to boost the signal strength to my laptop? I have internal wireless and my computer is a ibm x40. Thanks guys this is driving me nuts! :)
I have a cheap wireless security camera i need to boost its signal? how do i boost the signal on a wireless camera setup. its signal strength is about 300ft wich equates to about 40ft-50ft in the real world (cell phone interferance, radio signal interferance etc.) what device is used to boost the signal for these types of devices and how does it work? i need a signal strong enough for it to work up to about 700ft through walls and stuff, the tiny camera is going to be mounted on a small rc car and driven in my backyard : ) there i said it.
Is there a way to boost the wireless signal from a DSL box to a PS3? OK, i play my ps3 online a lot, but the 50% signal strength and lag can get annoying. I am upstairs, the dsl box is downstairs and basically on the other side of the house, so the signal has to go through a wall or 2 and some solid objects (tv stand, counter, etc.) to reach the ps3. My dad is too stubborn to let me get a wired connection. "it'll look bad, it'll be everywhere, blah blah" But we had dial-up so we had to have a wire then and he had no complaints, i'd be able to run a wire to my room without it being in the way or even using staples or anyhting, but no, he's as stupporn as a mule, or donkey, whatever the saying is. Anyway, is there a way to boost the signal using wireless connection? i hate it when i lose connection or get really laggy because of wireless.
How do I boost my Ps3 wireless signal.? I have moved my PS3 to the garage about 15 metres away and cannot get a wreless signal. I have bought a powerful rooter but it still isn't enough. I've heard about homeplugs. Will this work and do I need a phone line into the garage for this? Also, any other ideas, or is it a question of a phone line extension and ethernet cable? Thank you.
Wireless signal boost? I have a Linksys PCI Adapter...it allows me to connect to internet, but with only two bars... anyway to boost signal?
can you get something to boost a wireless internet signal? i have moved house recently and we bought a netgear WGR-614 but the signal cannot be reached from my room (to get onto xbox live) and i was wondering if it can be boosted so i can get on xbox live so if anybody knows of how to do it and how much it will cost, where to get it etc it would be appreciated... Thanks for reading and sorry about the story!! =D
What's the best way to boost signal strength of a wireless router? I have a linksys wrt54gl router with a d-link dwl-g510 adapter. The router is in the room above me (although I wanted it 2 floors above me) and I'm getting a low signal. After some investigating, I found out the ceiling is the kind that has lots of metal strips to which plaster is applied. I'm wondering if there is some sort of signal booster or antenna that can blast though this metal shield above me. Are there any recommendations on something that is proven to work? Can someone point out a specific product too? Thanks, Mike
How can I boost the signal to my at&t 3g wireless internet card? I have an at&t 3g wireless internet card that works in my laptop just great. Unfortunately where I need it is in my classroom that is down in the basement and I get a VERY week signal if any signal at all. Is there any way to get an external antenna or a boosting device? Please help
Can I use my laptop to boost my wireless signal? I know this sounds like a stupid question but I'm wanting to use my laptop to boost the wireless signal that it receives - does anyone know if there is any way to do this? Sorry all - I really didn't go in to enough detail there. I'll explain fully now. The problem is that for some reason I just cannot get the xbox to connect using my wireless network - I've tried everything. The way that I get round this is to connect my laptop to the wireless and then use an ethernet cable to connect my laptop to my xbox 360. I then share the wireless network connection and this allows the xbox to connect. However, even though signal remains good or better the xbox just randomly kicks me out of live matches - doesn't disconnect me from Live, just drops connection to the game (and kicks me out of a Live party if connected). The wireless network connection remains stable so I wondered if I'd get more success from somehow connecting the xbox to the laptop and using the connection that way - rather than using a LAN cable connected to a wireless network?
How can I boost my D-Link wireless routers signal? I have a DGL-4500 Wireless N Gaming Router from D-Link and the signal is weak in parts of my house. I want to get a better antenna and maybe and amplifier or something. Can someone recommend exactly what I need to get that will work best with the router model? Web links and model numbers are most helpful. Thanks.
Is there anything that I can buy to improve the signal of my wireless network? Basically I have wireless internet at my house but its a big place and the signal is very weak or nonexistant in certain rooms. Is there something i can purchase to boost the wireless signal that I dont have to plug in an ethernet cable? My wireless router has the ethernet cable connected to it and i really just want something that can take that signal and boost it. thanks!
How can I boost my 360 signal with wireless router? I currently use a wireless network adaptor, and it connects with a linksys router that is connecte with a modem, I dont get a great connection though. My 360 is usally one floor up in the same house which is maybe 30-45 feet is anything. I want a better connection with the router how can I get it?
how do i boost my wireless signal? i live in a 2 floor house and i dont know much about the internet!!! so if u could please answer in simple phases i would much appreciate! i have 2 hubs both bt! one is connected to my down stairs pc! i want to put one on the second floor but when in set it up the broadband light down stairs goes orange and flashes! and the same happens to the one up stairs if someone would please help me i would be very thankfull please help!!
How to boost wireless signal for multiplayer gaming? I am playing Fear Combat Multiplayer on my PC, and I am using a wifi card, accessing my neighbor's unsecured router, and only getting 1 bar. I sometimes tend to lag in bigger gaming servers with more players. I do have the router info, and access to the settings of the Linksys Router. Is it possible to change some settings to boost the signal so i won't lag? i used wireless on 3 bars, and i didnt lag, so 3 bars is the minimum to not lag
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