WI-Fi

[trainers]

We are trying to get wifi in our 1930's house. We tried about 4 years ago but found we could only get a connection near the router and we were told that this was because our internal walls are all brick and therefore the signal cannot get through. Does anyone know whether there is a way round this apart from getting mobile broadband and what effect will the wireless connection have on our PC?

[saxy_jag]

Who told you that, because I doubt it very much. We live in a 1930s semi, and before he got broadband via Sky, our neighbour used to connect via our router (it's OK - he's a good friend and we gave him the password). So this was two hallway widths and two driveway widths from router to laptop, through two internal and two external walls.

I can also get signals from at least three nearby houses (all the same as ours), and the only thing that stops me using their routers is the lack of password.

[The Builder]

...........as said, you shouldn't have a problem ....... unless your house is huge!

If necessary you can by a wireless network extender which plugs into any mains socket to "relay" the signal to wherever.

[The Builder]

^^^^^^ "buy"

[squarebear]

This is nonsense. Whoever told you that was mistaken.

[AlBags]

Personally, I would use Homeplug. This is an ideal situation to use it. They work really well.

[AlBags]

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[ChuckFickens]

I agree with homeplug being a good idea.

If you really want wireless you can connect a second wireless AP to the remote homeplug to increase the coverage. (any cheap wireless router will do, just disable DHCP on it)

the other option is to use a wireless AP that will work in WDS (wireless distribution service) mode to act as a repeater (netgear routers will do it, as will several others and they are a lot cheaper than official repeaters and do the same job in WDS mode.)

[trainers]

Thanks for all your help-off to the shops!!

[Mel_G]

I had the same problem at my parents place. We had to get two seperate accounts which cost us $120/month in internet fee's just so we could get the internet at both ends of our property. It sucked, but I've recently looked into http://www.wifirepeaterreviews.com/ and they help give you some decent tips about what works and what doesn't