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Weak wireless signal... best way to boost?
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<blockquote data-quote="DunnInLA" data-source="post: 778778" data-attributes="member: 74933"><p>Hello all.</p><p></p><p>My daughter is happily using her 1 yr. old Macbook Pro she got for Xmas. 2.16 speed, 120gb hardrive... that one.</p><p></p><p>Our home is 2 story. Her room is upstairs, opposite the Time Warner modem/wireless router from Netgear. We can get signal just at her doorway to the upstairs foyer, but in her room on her bed the signal drops after a few minutes. The same is true of the Dell laptop her sister has, so it's not the computer, simply the signal strength.</p><p></p><p>Time Warner Level 3 told me they could have a technician install a repeater/booster, but the guy came out today and reported Level 3 didn't know what they were talking about! I need to buy my own booster/repeater and install it on my own.</p><p></p><p>OK... on to research! I found two repeaters on Amazon, one by Belkin <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FTLOL0/?tag=macforums0e4-20" target="_blank">Amazon.com: Belkin F5D7132 Wireless-G Universal Range Extender: Electronics</a>, one by Hawking <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FIB8S0/?tag=macforums0e4-20" target="_blank">Amazon.com: Hawking HWREG1 Wireless G Range Extender: Electronics</a> , plus another product by Hawking called a signal booster <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0009MYSHU/?tag=macforums0e4-20" target="_blank">Amazon.com: Hawking HiGain Signal Booster version 2 - HSB2: Electronics</a></p><p></p><p>The reviews on each of these seems to be either great ***** or terrible *, with not much in between. Apparently it is 95% an issue of knowing how to configure the repeater as a 2nd router ... The Time Warner install guys did the configuring when they came out last year and I couldn't repeat it if I had to... I don't know my IP address, don't know what encryption is used, don't know what security it is running (though I do know it is identified by the Mac as a "secure network".</p><p></p><p>Which of the three above products is the most popular to use for someone not router savvy, to simply get a weak or intermittent signal to a distant part of a house?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DunnInLA, post: 778778, member: 74933"] Hello all. My daughter is happily using her 1 yr. old Macbook Pro she got for Xmas. 2.16 speed, 120gb hardrive... that one. Our home is 2 story. Her room is upstairs, opposite the Time Warner modem/wireless router from Netgear. We can get signal just at her doorway to the upstairs foyer, but in her room on her bed the signal drops after a few minutes. The same is true of the Dell laptop her sister has, so it's not the computer, simply the signal strength. Time Warner Level 3 told me they could have a technician install a repeater/booster, but the guy came out today and reported Level 3 didn't know what they were talking about! I need to buy my own booster/repeater and install it on my own. OK... on to research! I found two repeaters on Amazon, one by Belkin [URL='http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FTLOL0/?tag=macforums0e4-20']Amazon.com: Belkin F5D7132 Wireless-G Universal Range Extender: Electronics[/url], one by Hawking [URL='http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FIB8S0/?tag=macforums0e4-20']Amazon.com: Hawking HWREG1 Wireless G Range Extender: Electronics[/url] , plus another product by Hawking called a signal booster [URL='http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0009MYSHU/?tag=macforums0e4-20']Amazon.com: Hawking HiGain Signal Booster version 2 - HSB2: Electronics[/url] The reviews on each of these seems to be either great ***** or terrible *, with not much in between. Apparently it is 95% an issue of knowing how to configure the repeater as a 2nd router ... The Time Warner install guys did the configuring when they came out last year and I couldn't repeat it if I had to... I don't know my IP address, don't know what encryption is used, don't know what security it is running (though I do know it is identified by the Mac as a "secure network". Which of the three above products is the most popular to use for someone not router savvy, to simply get a weak or intermittent signal to a distant part of a house? [/QUOTE]
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