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Farr.
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| Since my room and my router are a long ways away from each other, and the signal has to travel through several concrete walls, TV's, mirrors etc. The signal I'm getting isn't very fast. I'm willing to spend some money to boost the signal. Any advice on what to buy? Maybe a real long ethernet cable or a wireless repeater? or is it possible to have 2 routers in the same house with the same ISP?
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Cryoma
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I don't see why you couldn't have as many routers as you want, they're just wireless hubs.
It's the cable box that you can only have 1 of (or however many you pay for).
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| Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 2:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Yes, I suppose you could just buy an additional router?
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Karakawe
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| Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 4:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Some routers can be used as "wireless repeaters". Think of them like telegraph relays.
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Farr.
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| Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 4:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Karakawe wrote: | | Some routers can be used as "wireless repeaters". Think of them like telegraph relays. |
any way of finding out which routers can be used as repeaters? would it specify?
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Karakawe
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| I'm really not sure. I think it is specific to the router, something they would advertise it as.
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| Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 9:42 am Post subject: Re: Looking to boost wireless signal |
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| Farr. wrote: | | Since my room and my router are a long ways away from each other, and the signal has to travel through several concrete walls, TV's, mirrors etc. The signal I'm getting isn't very fast. I'm willing to spend some money to boost the signal. Any advice on what to buy? Maybe a real long ethernet cable or a wireless repeater? or is it possible to have 2 routers in the same house with the same ISP? |
What router are you using? (Name & Model)
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Farr.
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| Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 10:07 am Post subject: Re: Looking to boost wireless signal |
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| The Immortal wrote: | | Farr. wrote: | | Since my room and my router are a long ways away from each other, and the signal has to travel through several concrete walls, TV's, mirrors etc. The signal I'm getting isn't very fast. I'm willing to spend some money to boost the signal. Any advice on what to buy? Maybe a real long ethernet cable or a wireless repeater? or is it possible to have 2 routers in the same house with the same ISP? |
What router are you using? (Name & Model) |
TP-LINK 108M Wireless ADSL2 + Router
Model: TD-W8920G
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| Farr. wrote: | | Karakawe wrote: | | Some routers can be used as "wireless repeaters". Think of them like telegraph relays. |
any way of finding out which routers can be used as repeaters? would it specify? |
I think its called ad-dock technology or something like that
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