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I have a basic network setup at home, wireless router in Dad's office (DI-524 ), wireless usb adapter in my room (DWL-G122). Ever since I had set it up last year, my signal strength has always been "Low" or "Very Low" or sometimes, non-existant.
I decided to get a usb extension cable and that kinda fixed the problem. I can connect more often now, but my signal strength has always been as weak as always.
It really has to do with placement. I once brought my system downstairs for a bit and I got an "Excellent" signal at a speed of 54 Mbps. But I have to keep my machine upstairs anyway, where I'm only get 1 Mbps, max 2 Mbps.
Here's how my current placement looks:
This signal problem is quite a bother especially when I'm playing cs1.6, my ping is fine, like 15 to 25, but every so often, I get random lag for a split second. I don't have constant lag, it just comes up every so 15 - 20 seconds.
One important detail as well. All the cordless phones are mostly on the 1st Floor. Whenever somebody makes a call, I lost my connection entirely. They're are 2.4GHz phones, and I know that I need to change em to 900Mhz or 5.8GHz frequency. But that's obviously gonna cost a lot. Any other way I can work around the phone thing?
I'm looking for the cheapest solution possible. A new antenna, an extender, repeater, new router, new adapter, wtvr, as long as fixing this problem will cost from $0-$50 canadian at most.
I decided to get a usb extension cable and that kinda fixed the problem. I can connect more often now, but my signal strength has always been as weak as always.
It really has to do with placement. I once brought my system downstairs for a bit and I got an "Excellent" signal at a speed of 54 Mbps. But I have to keep my machine upstairs anyway, where I'm only get 1 Mbps, max 2 Mbps.
Here's how my current placement looks:
This signal problem is quite a bother especially when I'm playing cs1.6, my ping is fine, like 15 to 25, but every so often, I get random lag for a split second. I don't have constant lag, it just comes up every so 15 - 20 seconds.
One important detail as well. All the cordless phones are mostly on the 1st Floor. Whenever somebody makes a call, I lost my connection entirely. They're are 2.4GHz phones, and I know that I need to change em to 900Mhz or 5.8GHz frequency. But that's obviously gonna cost a lot. Any other way I can work around the phone thing?
I'm looking for the cheapest solution possible. A new antenna, an extender, repeater, new router, new adapter, wtvr, as long as fixing this problem will cost from $0-$50 canadian at most.