My wifi settings: I need signal improvement

Hi,

I'm glad to find this forum. New here, not new to wireless but
confused about the settings in my router.

It's an oldy: Linksys BEFW11S4, but I got for free as a hand me down.
Can't complain on that dept. Anyway, I would like to improve the reach
of the signal without having to purchase anything else. I took a
screenshot of my browser while on the wireless settings page.

Your help on this is greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
Hector


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hrp2171 <(E-Mail Removed)> hath wroth:

>It's an oldy: Linksys BEFW11S4, but I got for free as a hand me down.

1.44.2 is the latest for v1 hardware. Look on the serial number tag
and see if it shows a hardware version number. It probably shows
nothing for v1.

>Can't complain on that dept.

I can complain. I used one of those (v4) for about a year. It was
always hanging and crashing. I gave up and switched to a WRT54GS v4
and lived happily ever after.

>Anyway, I would like to improve the reach
>of the signal without having to purchase anything else.

Broke. No problem. See:
<http://www.freeantennas.com>
Build a reflector out of cardboard and aluminium foil. Works very
nicely.

>I took a
>screenshot of my browser while on the wireless settings page.

There's nothing on that page that will give you more range or a
stronger signal.


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hrp2171 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm glad to find this forum. New here, not new to wireless but
> confused about the settings in my router.
>
> It's an oldy: Linksys BEFW11S4, but I got for free as a hand me down.
> Can't complain on that dept. Anyway, I would like to improve the reach
> of the signal without having to purchase anything else. I took a
> screenshot of my browser while on the wireless settings page.
>
> Your help on this is greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
> Hector
>
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None of those settings, except the Antenna selection will have any
effect on *reach*. See here for the Users Guide. There are 4 versions,
make sure you pick the correct one.
Watch the wrap.
http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satel...#versiondetail
Incidentally this a an obsolete slow dog. It's WEP only, which is
useless for security and runs at slow B speeds.