location of AP

I'd like to know where the best place in a home to put a wireless
router. I've got the d-link wireless router on the main floor. But
I'm finding a bad connection in the basement. Would putting it
upstairs be the best place?

How else can I improve the range? I'm on channel 11 now.

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
ggewrvgn245234 <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
:I'd like to know where the best place in a home to put a wireless
:router. I've got the d-link wireless router on the main floor. But
:I'm finding a bad connection in the basement. Would putting it
:upstairs be the best place?

Placing the unit upstairs is not likely to help your connection
in the basement, unless you, by chance, get around whatever issue
is leading to poor signal strength between the main floor and basement.


:How else can I improve the range? I'm on channel 11 now.

How do you have your antennaes oriented for the router? The typical
antenna coverage pattern, with antenna raised, is to cover mostly
on the same level as the router, with a bit of coverage at a downward
angle. If your wireless device in the basement does not happen to fall
within the section covered by the slight downward angle, then you are
going to get poor signal. If, though, you reorient the antenna, you
could potentially aim the signal more downwards. Does your d-link
have two antenna? If so, then you could try having one horizontal
and one vertical and see how that goes.

Even if you get the correct coverage angle, there is the possibility
that there is something blocking the signal -- something like
a metal beam, or furnance ducts. If so, then possibly moving the
device a little in the basement might make a big difference.
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You might find that a USB wireless adapter on the basement PC can help to
move the antenna to where the signal is best. You can have up to 75 feet of
cable (using active cable extensions). Also you might consider a USB
adapter with a directional antenna such as the Hawking HWU54D
(http://www.hawkingtech.com/prodSpec.php?ProdID=208) USB client which
includes a small panel antenna. Approx $60.

Of course you could easily construct a tin cantenna that would give similar
results:
http://members.cox.net/tulsaalstons/...Adapter%20.htm

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Bob Alston

bobalston9 AT aol DOT com
"Walter Roberson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:cm6epo$da2$(E-Mail Removed)...
> In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
> ggewrvgn245234 <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> :I'd like to know where the best place in a home to put a wireless
> :router. I've got the d-link wireless router on the main floor. But
> :I'm finding a bad connection in the basement. Would putting it
> :upstairs be the best place?
>
> Placing the unit upstairs is not likely to help your connection
> in the basement, unless you, by chance, get around whatever issue
> is leading to poor signal strength between the main floor and basement.
>
>
> :How else can I improve the range? I'm on channel 11 now.
>
> How do you have your antennaes oriented for the router? The typical
> antenna coverage pattern, with antenna raised, is to cover mostly
> on the same level as the router, with a bit of coverage at a downward
> angle. If your wireless device in the basement does not happen to fall
> within the section covered by the slight downward angle, then you are
> going to get poor signal. If, though, you reorient the antenna, you
> could potentially aim the signal more downwards. Does your d-link
> have two antenna? If so, then you could try having one horizontal
> and one vertical and see how that goes.
>
> Even if you get the correct coverage angle, there is the possibility
> that there is something blocking the signal -- something like
> a metal beam, or furnance ducts. If so, then possibly moving the
> device a little in the basement might make a big difference.
> --
> This is not the same .sig the second time you read it.


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