Comments on: 8 Tips To Effectively Boost Your Wireless Router Signal

By: AriesWarlock

AriesWarlock — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 01:06:57 +0000

you are talking about ethernet powerline I take it.

By: AriesWarlock

AriesWarlock — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:30:27 +0000

Do you have a video of this?

By: Mustafa

Mustafa — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:42:54 +0000

I don’t know about anyone else but the last one worked for me it got me signal strength from low to very good… that sorts my issue out.

By: shel

shel — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:26:21 +0000

I upgraded from G to N (Cisco) and found zero differences. There should simply be a real signal booster to purchase, rated honestly, like 10 watts (mw is hardly enough).

By: Super Man

Super Man — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:37:05 +0000

my router is in the kitchen, next to the wireless phone hub, 3 feet from the microwave and in front of the sliding glass door leading to the backyard.

anyways, here’s how i got my wireless signal from 70% to 100%.

1. i bought a corner shelf for the wall (http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=10051&productId=100546138&langId=-1&catalogId=10053&ci_src=14110944&ci_sku=100546138&cm_mmc=shopping-_-googlebase-_-D23X-_-100546138).

2. placed the router on the shelf.

3. taped tinfoil to wall behind router, so it acts as a directional tool.

what is happening is that before, i was (and everybody else is as well), losing x% of my wireless signal out the backend of my house (especially through the sliding glass door). now, the tinfoil reflects the wifi signal back into the house. no signal loss = full signal. makes sense, doesn’t it? what’s the use in letting half the signal go outside.

i now get 100% signal throughout my house (upstairs, downstairs, anywhere), and it never varies.

By: Womble

Womble — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 08:57:33 +0000

I found this with wireless too doing a ping -t at the commandline revealed that my throughput was OK but they were dropouts at regular intervals. Having tried a zillion things I am resigned myself to the fact that this is the way with wireless right now.

I currently Have a second router setup as a wired bridge so that my main PC and Xbox are wired but I still have the benefit of wireless throughout the house.

By: cccv

cccv — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 02:12:41 +0000

@cjizzle: What product do you use?

By: Hallie Dandy

Hallie Dandy — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:35:53 +0000

Sie haben einige gute Punkte gibt. Ich habe eine Suche auf dem

By: Florine Rosenbeck

Florine Rosenbeck — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:35:16 +0000

Erste-Hilfe f?r einen Herzinfarkt und Ihre Post sieht sehr

By: Blah

Blah — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 21:51:35 +0000

P.S. wireless technology works just like the human voice. When speaking to someone you automatically know to turn towards them and your voice is projected in that direction and therefore louder to the recipient than if you were to talk facing away. These tinfoil antenna’s allow you to face your wireless devices towards each other, so when they talk they can hear each other better. The tinfoil also blocks out some interference from other equipment behind the tinfoil, such as electrical boxes and other wireless devices, much like putting up cubicles at work to keep noise levels down, that way you don’t have to scream at the guy next to you hold a simple conversation.

By: Blah

Blah — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 21:23:40 +0000

The Aluminum foil DOES work, without a doubt. I spent the time to test it out. My signal strength from 1 side of the house to the other was around -70dbm stock, as measured by “Inssider” on Windows 7, after attaching the tinfoil Windsurfer antenna to just my PC I gained about 7% signal improvement (~60-65dbm), after attaching another Windsurfer antenna to the Verizon FIOS Wireless Router and aiming them at each other I am now at 50-55dbm, a nearly 20% improvement with just some paper and tinfoil and 20 minutes of time. I just ran a test at SpeedTest to see if it would actually be any faster and I got 20.80Mb/sec down and 4Mb/sec up, my best speed yet. Thank you FIOS and Walmart tinfoil.

By: Skeleetor

Skeleetor — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:46:54 +0000

Wireless N has yet to be standardized fyi.
Also you all definitly want to set your Nic’s to full speed duplex, alowing simultaneous up and down info transmission.

By: pcrequest

pcrequest — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:44:19 +0000

I would recommend http://www.metageek.net/products/inssider also to see what your neighbors are on, and then pick a channel that is most clear. This will only show you wifi usage, and not phones, bluetooth, microwave ovens, but Metageek also makes some USB dongles I’ve found at reasonable prices at eBay if you want to take the investigation to the next level. Remember that wifi works a bit like old hubbed ethernet. All devices are competing for a common media (the air channel in this case) and only one device can send OR receive at any given moment over that media.

Also if you have many G devices, and one B device, the B is going to spoil the party and everything will operate at B. (ISBN: 978-0-470-11008-9 page 709)

By: Jenny Miller

Jenny Miller — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:38:22 +0000

This is great, and I really appreciate all of the information that you shared in this post!

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:17:27 +0000

Use only channels 1, 6, or 11. Using other channels will interfere with those three channels (Thanks WiFi Specification!), causing you throughput loss as well as throughput loss for your neighbors.