Forgive me if this is a STICKY somewhere but I thought that these questions were unique to my situation.
I have a router centrally located in my mother's home. Now, her home is basically a single wide trailer that the back was cut out and a fixed structured add-on was done. So... looking at the house from the road, you basically see a single wide trailer that is under a full roof. This roof ties into the back add on. So the front of the house and half of the front sides of the house are trailer metal, tin, aluminum... whatever they are made of. I know that this is not good for WiFi. So hear is my problem and my question.
There is one bedroom that is in the far right front of the house/trailer that Wifi is extremely faded (to the point of 1 bar at best on the computer). And also my cell phone wifi signal drops to literally nothing in this room. The room's door opens directly to a long hallway, which is where I have the router/access point setup. The antenna is pointing directly at the bedroom door (top of antenna points toward door). This is the best I could do to barely get the signal that I have acheived so far. So that is the problem. Now for the question.
I came across another Netgear router/access point. If I was to just plug this unit into the wall and place it near the bedroom door.. will it repeat the wifi signal to boost it in the bedroom? I don't have this on hand right now or I would just try it and find out. But, theoretically would this serve as another access point... thus making the wifi signal in that room better?
Now, if not. What can I do to help this signal. Ofcourse, she had to make this room her den with her main computer. BTW, the signal everywhere else in the place is great and it even extends out to the back yard and front porch well. I don't know about the front yard but it isn't necessary out front. Just maybe the porch, in which it is 4 outta 5 bars.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Now I know that I can buy one of those plug in repeaters for like $60 @ radio shack but I'm looking for something cheap. I was thinking that the other access point would work for it. It is a wireless cable modem gateway but could I use it to boost or repeat signal?
Thanks,
Mark
I have a router centrally located in my mother's home. Now, her home is basically a single wide trailer that the back was cut out and a fixed structured add-on was done. So... looking at the house from the road, you basically see a single wide trailer that is under a full roof. This roof ties into the back add on. So the front of the house and half of the front sides of the house are trailer metal, tin, aluminum... whatever they are made of. I know that this is not good for WiFi. So hear is my problem and my question.
There is one bedroom that is in the far right front of the house/trailer that Wifi is extremely faded (to the point of 1 bar at best on the computer). And also my cell phone wifi signal drops to literally nothing in this room. The room's door opens directly to a long hallway, which is where I have the router/access point setup. The antenna is pointing directly at the bedroom door (top of antenna points toward door). This is the best I could do to barely get the signal that I have acheived so far. So that is the problem. Now for the question.
I came across another Netgear router/access point. If I was to just plug this unit into the wall and place it near the bedroom door.. will it repeat the wifi signal to boost it in the bedroom? I don't have this on hand right now or I would just try it and find out. But, theoretically would this serve as another access point... thus making the wifi signal in that room better?
Now, if not. What can I do to help this signal. Ofcourse, she had to make this room her den with her main computer. BTW, the signal everywhere else in the place is great and it even extends out to the back yard and front porch well. I don't know about the front yard but it isn't necessary out front. Just maybe the porch, in which it is 4 outta 5 bars.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Now I know that I can buy one of those plug in repeaters for like $60 @ radio shack but I'm looking for something cheap. I was thinking that the other access point would work for it. It is a wireless cable modem gateway but could I use it to boost or repeat signal?
Thanks,
Mark