Crummy iPad WiFi in garage

[eek]

in which case your router has an internal aerial so range will be limited.


install heat seeker and see how badly limited. I suspect up to 30 feet when hell freezes over.


You can buy repeaters with external removable aerials. Then if its still bad then add an external aerial. You just plug these in to a network port and set up another wireless ssid.

TP-LINK TL-WA730RE 150Mbps Wireless N Range Extender - Repeater - external | eBay

TP link seem popular for things like DD-wrt so are probably fairly advanced for the price.

Argos do those and I've had them in the past. It does have a tendency to forget what its repeating once in a while though.

Internally though these are good value. http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...=1&s=computers

[vetran]

For some curious reason, some of those external antennas come with some incredibly fat 50 ohm cable & an N plug.

Then you have to spend another £10 on an N to SMA adaptor.

<Zeity in "I've been caught like that before" mode.>

radio hams?

[minestrone]

MY thinking now with these things is to set the modem into bridged mode and pass on the wireless and everything else to a higher quality dedicated router with a bit of balls.

[d000hg]

MY thinking now with these things is to set the modem into bridged mode and pass on the wireless and everything else to a higher quality dedicated router with a bit of balls.

I was also thinking about that, presumably this would involve linking two routers/hubs via ethernet? No idea if the Sky hub has settings for this, or if you even need to do anything on the primary hub, but I'm sure Google will tell me.

We do now have a mains-network for inside the house so my other option is to sling a cable to the garage and get a mains->wifi adapter. As winter draws in I may have to do this just to be able to use my bike in the garage, obviously having WiFi broadcast inside the garage would solve the problem.

[doodab]

I was also thinking about that, presumably this would involve linking two routers/hubs via ethernet? No idea if the Sky hub has settings for this, or if you even need to do anything on the primary hub, but I'm sure Google will tell me.

We do now have a mains-network for inside the house so my other option is to sling a cable to the garage and get a mains->wifi adapter. As winter draws in I may have to do this just to be able to use my bike in the garage, obviously having WiFi broadcast inside the garage would solve the problem.

You could also consider getting an access point that works on PoE and running an ethernet cable.

[minestrone]

I was also thinking about that, presumably this would involve linking two routers/hubs via ethernet? No idea if the Sky hub has settings for this, or if you even need to do anything on the primary hub, but I'm sure Google will tell me.

We do now have a mains-network for inside the house so my other option is to sling a cable to the garage and get a mains->wifi adapter. As winter draws in I may have to do this just to be able to use my bike in the garage, obviously having WiFi broadcast inside the garage would solve the problem.

Ethernet straight out of the modem and it goes into a dedicated internet port on my asus router, I would be pretty sure that all modems (even sky) would offer a bridged mode and then you just stick the username and password into the router.

I stay in a fairly substantial sandstone semi with a modern extension beyond a sandstone wall, wifi has been a bit of a pain. I'm going to get the newer asus one that has wireless ac, about 130 quid I think.

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over the weekend someone commented about a similar issue.

Back door open perfect signal

Back door closed hardly any.