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wireless router plus extender nightmare
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<blockquote data-quote="tootallUK" data-source="post: 527952" data-attributes="member: 10667"><p>I currently use a standard and quite cheap Belkin ADSL router for my wireless network...</p><p></p><p>I also have an Airport Express, into which is plugged a printer..</p><p></p><p>although the Express can apparently extend the network by repeating (and boosting?) the signal, I am too much of a doofus to figure out how... so I just use it to be able to put my ptinter out of the way on a shelf and print wirelessly from my iBook or Mini</p><p></p><p>My house was built in 1930 and has plenty of steel in a large extension, in part of which the computers live... in a straight line, they are only 12 feet from the router and the signal drop is not too bad, through 2/3 brick walls and with the steels in the roof above (but not in line-of-sight to the router, which is in the cupboard under the stairs, for reasons of space...</p><p></p><p>currently hoping someone will explain how to use the Express extending facility but at the moment I can hook up in the back garden, 30/40 feet away from the router and the signal is still 3/5 bars strength...</p><p></p><p>I did look at Airport Extreme - but it was about £100 more than the Belkin, which seems to work well, although the Extreme will undoubtedly talk to the Macs and be better able to set up a network connection between them...</p><p></p><p>in short, I think almost anything works... Express can then be used to boost signal, or use a better antenna!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tootallUK, post: 527952, member: 10667"] I currently use a standard and quite cheap Belkin ADSL router for my wireless network... I also have an Airport Express, into which is plugged a printer.. although the Express can apparently extend the network by repeating (and boosting?) the signal, I am too much of a doofus to figure out how... so I just use it to be able to put my ptinter out of the way on a shelf and print wirelessly from my iBook or Mini My house was built in 1930 and has plenty of steel in a large extension, in part of which the computers live... in a straight line, they are only 12 feet from the router and the signal drop is not too bad, through 2/3 brick walls and with the steels in the roof above (but not in line-of-sight to the router, which is in the cupboard under the stairs, for reasons of space... currently hoping someone will explain how to use the Express extending facility but at the moment I can hook up in the back garden, 30/40 feet away from the router and the signal is still 3/5 bars strength... I did look at Airport Extreme - but it was about £100 more than the Belkin, which seems to work well, although the Extreme will undoubtedly talk to the Macs and be better able to set up a network connection between them... in short, I think almost anything works... Express can then be used to boost signal, or use a better antenna! [/QUOTE]
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