Aluminium-shielded room -- bad signal

Hi
My computer containing my wi-fi card are my room, the walls of which are
shielded with aluminium to block out drafts from the adjacent loft.

This means that I cannot get a reliable signal from the house's wireless
router. I often get disconnected even if I put the router in my room.
Presumably this is from decaying radio waves bouncing about causing noise?

If I were to unattach the antenna from my wi-fi card and put it outside my
room, connecting it to my wi-fi card with copper cable, would this solve my
problems? Would the cable need to be shielded?

Thanks in advance,
Stuart Dennett

In message <bjljnt$kj215$(E-Mail Removed)>, Stuart Dennett
<(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>Hi
>My computer containing my wi-fi card are my room, the walls of which are
>shielded with aluminium to block out drafts from the adjacent loft.
>
>This means that I cannot get a reliable signal from the house's wireless
>router. I often get disconnected even if I put the router in my room.
>Presumably this is from decaying radio waves bouncing about causing noise?
>
>If I were to unattach the antenna from my wi-fi card and put it outside my
>room, connecting it to my wi-fi card with copper cable, would this solve my
>problems? Would the cable need to be shielded?

I'd say so. RF connectors at these frequencies aren't like jump-start
cables for your car :-)

You really need RG174 cable properly terminated with SMA, TNC or N-type
connectors as appropriate to your equipment.

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