Finally got my PC (upgraded) back, and a new laptop.
I live in a House with 3 floors, my office (and virtual cockpit)
is in the lower part, where the DSL-line is placed.
Now my oldest daughter who is in highschool is on the third floor.
Yesterday I bought a Zyxel wireless router, and a wireless card for my daughters PC. It works ok only the signal is very lousy if I just move a few meters away from the router. I tried to remove all cryptation to no avail.
If I move up a floor there is no signal at all. My wireless telephone works all over the place.
Any Ideas how to improve it? Do I need a repeater or another acces point?
I have wireless also, but I use the wireless only for the laptop. I think it is the wireless card quality that is important.
On the laptop I can internet in the whole house and in the garden also. But on a PCI wireless card that I bought also, I can not move 1 m. from the router. It is useless, but it was cheap. So instead the wireless card I use now a 2 m. UTP cable to connect my PC to the internet. :roflmao:
If you can’t go more then a few meters from the router before the signal gets too weak I suggest you return it, must be something wrong with it, either by design or by manufacture. I don’t have any big experience of wireless, but inside a wooden house 3 floors shouldn’t be any problem unless you have a lot of things interfering with the signal (other radio transmitters, or lots of cables). In a house made of stone and/or metal, all bets are off…
I’ve got a wireless network linking two PCs in a very old building - signal travels about 10 metres through a wooden floor and a thick stone wall, and although it isn’t 100% reliable it is OK for general internet access and file & print sharing.
It was only a cheap Belkin ADSL Modem / Router with a USB wireless adapter, so if your performance is that bad I would certainly take it back.
It´s not a wooden house but masoned. Anyway if I move 5-6 meters from the router but still in vision, the signal says poor, so Mikke I think you´re right.
It´s ZyXel stuff pretty expensive, but useless for now, luckily the dealer is a nice guy so I ´ll return it.
I has not to be the zyxel router, but the wireless card for the PC can be not so good quality. Zyxel is a good brand I think.
For wireless cards, I don’t know what is a good brand.
My wireless router has very good connection to my laptop in all the house from living room to the attic, right through every concrete wall. So I must have WEP encryption because outside other people can also detect my WLAN.
I´ve not yet installed any wireless cards , but they are ZyXel too.
My Il-2 machine is connected by a cable.
I use my brand new laptop for testing , I tried it in other places and it works fine. The guy at the shop said I might have to add another antenna. I´ll borrow one from him.
Anyway thx for all the advice.
Right now I´m installining FB+AEP+PF on a brand new PC, Saitek X45 and
TrackIr allready set up
Bad thing I lost all my extra files, patches, paintschemes you name when the darn thing broke down 3 weeks ago.
In just a few moments I´ll see what perfect settings looks like
Impressive. Any company that can manage to produce a defective piece of wire with a plastic coating must have developed some revolutionary new process for cocking things up
i got wireless here for my laptop
it’s for school. but it has an interal wireless card. and i got a netopia reouter and ik tested it, i have a signal 150 meter away from my router
in backyard i got excelent signal ans my router is upstairs so i suggest let the network card checked
I agree, Cooper. That’s my point about the antenna - all it has to do is make contact, there isn’t much to go wrong with it. Sounds like a “don’t know what it is so blame the first thing we think of” expalanation. I’d ask them to test it with a new card if you can, Jens.
is connected by a cable.
