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Hi,

Looking for advice/suggestions please.

A customer of mine that I've maintained their PC's for quite a while has
asked me how they can extend the range of their existing Belkin 7230
wireless router.

Scenario is that they live in an old stone house, split over 3 floors.
Cable modem and router are on ground floor at the rear of the house.
Wireless signal will not reach to top floor (master bedroom).

Their son want to be able to use xBox live and of course needs an internet
connection to do this. He could buy an xBox360 wireless adapter and I'm sure
it would work as his room is on the first floor directly above the wirleless
router. This doesn't solve the problem of boosing the wireless signall to
the top floor.

In an ideal world, my suggestion would be to run a cat5 cable upstairs to
the first floor, stick a switch on it and connect the xBox to the switch via
ethernet, you could then look at a wireless range booster to amplify the
wireless signal from first floor to second floor.

The problem arises as the house is very old, has rather nice wooden floors
and their isn't an "easy" way to get a cable upstairs. I don't want to
start drilling holes in external walls or ripping up wooden flooring !!

Is there any device that would work wirlessly from ground to first floor to
"connect" the first floor bedroom to the ground floor router without the
need for cables?? Could I then use the switch/range booster idea??

I had though about powerline ethernet, but I've never used it and heard
mixed results??

Many thanks in anticipation.

Geoff

You can get WiFi Homplugs.
Plug the passive end in downstairs and the WiFi Access point in the room
where you want it.

Don C



In article <2JIal.85197$(E-Mail Removed)2>, Geoff_UK
<(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>Hi,
>
>Looking for advice/suggestions please.
>
>A customer of mine that I've maintained their PC's for quite a while
>has asked me how they can extend the range of their existing Belkin
>7230 wireless router.
>
>Scenario is that they live in an old stone house, split over 3 floors.
>Cable modem and router are on ground floor at the rear of the house.
>Wireless signal will not reach to top floor (master bedroom).
>
>Their son want to be able to use xBox live and of course needs an
>internet connection to do this. He could buy an xBox360 wireless
>adapter and I'm sure it would work as his room is on the first floor
>directly above the wirleless router. This doesn't solve the problem of
>boosing the wireless signall to the top floor.
>
>In an ideal world, my suggestion would be to run a cat5 cable upstairs
>to the first floor, stick a switch on it and connect the xBox to the
>switch via ethernet, you could then look at a wireless range booster to
>amplify the wireless signal from first floor to second floor.
>
>The problem arises as the house is very old, has rather nice wooden
>floors and their isn't an "easy" way to get a cable upstairs. I don't
>want to start drilling holes in external walls or ripping up wooden
>flooring !!
>
>Is there any device that would work wirlessly from ground to first
>floor to "connect" the first floor bedroom to the ground floor router
>without the need for cables?? Could I then use the switch/range booster
>idea??
>
>I had though about powerline ethernet, but I've never used it and heard
>mixed results??
>
>Many thanks in anticipation.
>
>Geoff
>

cheers - not heard of thos before.

any other ideas ??

Geoff
"Donald Campbell" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> You can get WiFi Homplugs.
> Plug the passive end in downstairs and the WiFi Access point in the room
> where you want it.
>
> Don C
>
>
>
> In article <2JIal.85197$(E-Mail Removed)2>, Geoff_UK
> <(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>>Hi,
>>
>>Looking for advice/suggestions please.
>>
>>A customer of mine that I've maintained their PC's for quite a while has
>>asked me how they can extend the range of their existing Belkin 7230
>>wireless router.
>>
>>Scenario is that they live in an old stone house, split over 3 floors.
>>Cable modem and router are on ground floor at the rear of the house.
>>Wireless signal will not reach to top floor (master bedroom).
>>
>>Their son want to be able to use xBox live and of course needs an internet
>>connection to do this. He could buy an xBox360 wireless adapter and I'm
>>sure it would work as his room is on the first floor directly above the
>>wirleless router. This doesn't solve the problem of boosing the wireless
>>signall to the top floor.
>>
>>In an ideal world, my suggestion would be to run a cat5 cable upstairs to
>>the first floor, stick a switch on it and connect the xBox to the switch
>>via ethernet, you could then look at a wireless range booster to amplify
>>the wireless signal from first floor to second floor.
>>
>>The problem arises as the house is very old, has rather nice wooden floors
>>and their isn't an "easy" way to get a cable upstairs. I don't want to
>>start drilling holes in external walls or ripping up wooden flooring !!
>>
>>Is there any device that would work wirlessly from ground to first floor
>>to "connect" the first floor bedroom to the ground floor router without
>>the need for cables?? Could I then use the switch/range booster idea??
>>
>>I had though about powerline ethernet, but I've never used it and heard
>>mixed results??
>>
>>Many thanks in anticipation.
>>
>>Geoff
>>

"Geoff_UK" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:2JIal.85197$(E-Mail Removed)2...
> Hi,
>
> Looking for advice/suggestions please.
>
> A customer of mine

Stop right there, how much will you be paying for the advice if you are
going to pass it on and charge your "customer"?

If the price is right I will tell you what to do, or speak to your customer
directly. I hope they don't read newsgroups! They might find out you
have been misleading them.

"Geoff_UK" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:y_Jal.32097$(E-Mail Removed)2...
> cheers - not heard of thos before.
>
> any other ideas ??
>

Christ! And you have a "customer" and you don't know the first thing
about computers? Poor things, do they know you bluff your way through
things?
Fancy having to ask in a newsgroup.

Yeah, thanks for your help mate !! Really helpfull.

Donald - your advice was greatly appreciated as I've not used powerline
ethernet before and only ever heard bad things about it. As it happens,
I've emailed the people and told them that I recived a good suggestion from
this group and I think they're going to buy a powerline wireless kit.

I always thought the spirit of newsgroups was to share knowledge - the
people I'm doing this for know perfectly well that I'm posting to a
newsgroup on their behalf, not that that should have anything to do with any
advice either asked for or received??

I think the term troll springs to mind ???

As I said, thanks Donald, much appreciated.

Geoff


"James R" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
> "Geoff_UK" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:2JIal.85197$(E-Mail Removed)2...
>> Hi,
>>
>> Looking for advice/suggestions please.
>>
>> A customer of mine
>
> Stop right there, how much will you be paying for the advice if you are
> going to pass it on and charge your "customer"?
>
> If the price is right I will tell you what to do, or speak to your
> customer
> directly. I hope they don't read newsgroups! They might find out you
> have been misleading them.
>
>