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In one corner of my house i have my Motorola Surfboard cable modem and my Netgear wireless router set up. its in a family room and my bedroom is in the opposite corner of the house.

i get no wireless connection back there. anybody know what i should buy or can recommend a good wireless router extender i guess youd call it to buy? thanks

Michfan15 · Answer

In one corner of my house i have my Motorola Surfboard cable modem and my Netgear wireless router set up. its in a family room and my bedroom is in the opposite corner of the house.

i get no wireless connection back there. anybody know what i should buy or can recommend a good wireless router extender i guess youd call it to buy? thanks

Michfan15 · Answer

I&#x27;d estimate the distance between the two rooms is about 100 feet.  and they are on different floors.  if that matters

davisz · Answer

You could give that new Cisco Valet a try. It is an adapter that plugs into your computer and feeds off the router in your house. Sometimes there is wall interference (usually in the floors of buildings), or the routers signal distance is just lacking.

Hope this helps.

BostonKen · Answer

It reads like you have a shitty router. I would look into getting a new one. How old is the Netgear router?

KQC · Answer

Netgear has some products called Powerline and Coax or wireless range extenders and access points if you wish to stick w/ Netgear

Lippsman · Answer

Your friend. &#xD;&#xA;My personal toy shop.

Mutant_Boogers · Answer

A booster or repeater would work, but another option is the Homeplug AV, which you feed traffic from your router/modem through your electrical outlets throughout the house.&#xD;&#xA;Good luck...

dennishopson · Answer

Lynksishttps://www.linksys.com/Everytime I&#x27;ve used a router for the purpose you described,  I&#x27;ved used these ones. I had three different ones. can recall why different, but the bottom line is that they worked gtreat, and I was happy.GL........

dennishopson · Answer

Heres the link to that Cisco valet davisz was talking about which seems to feature and think a lot about Lynksys. https://home.cisco.com/en-US/wireless/Home it helps.

dennishopson · Answer

(I wish this site had edit for typos.

Yes , I know that I could sit back and proof read everything I post, but very rarely do I have fewer than 7 windows open and doing at least 5 things at once.

I know. Cry me a river.

dudesenior · Answer

i dont have such problems ...:D....i have internet through a stick

searchwarrant · Answer

[Quote: Originally Posted by Lippsman] &#xD;&#xA;Your friend. &#xD;&#xA;My personal toy shop. &#xD;&#xA;[/Quote]&#xD;&#xA;I&#x27;m all over that product. Sell &#x27;em Lipps?

KQC · Answer

Lipps- Can you recommend a good, decent priced wireless-n router?

Lippsman · Answer

[Quote: Originally Posted by searchwarrant] &#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;I&#x27;m all over that product. Sell &#x27;em Lipps?&#xD;&#xA;[/Quote]&#xD;&#xA;No, I usually just get them through that site, unless I have a bulk order and then I will get them through thier channels.

Lippsman · Answer

&#xD;&#xA;Anything Linksys or Netgear is fine.  But those suckers are still a bit high priced.  Just check those Sunday papers and wait on a sale on either one.

KQC · Answer

[Quote: Originally Posted by Lippsman]  &#xD;&#xA;Anything Linksys or Netgear is fine.  But those suckers are still a bit high priced.  Just check those Sunday papers and wait on a sale on either one.   [/Quote]Thx, I&#x27;ve seen some internet deals for Netgear/Linksys for pretty cheap.  Is it that much better than wireless g? And is dual band required?

Lippsman · Answer

&#xD;&#xA;It just all depends on if you actually have a N wireless card or not. If you don&#x27;t, then make sure your card and router is the same brand. Personally I would just stick with G. Unless you are constantly streaming multi-media it&#x27;s not a huge difference that you would notice

KQC · Answer

Thx Lipps, I have a Atheros b/g/n card in the laptop.  Would have to stick w/ either a Netgear or Linksys router (currently using that Linksys wireless g router that the majority of ppl use).

chilitokid · Answer

I don&#x27;t fully understand all the love for Linksys? I have had 2 Linksys wireless routers (the last one was a WRT54G2) and both started off working great. Then....slowly they went downhill. The biggest problem was constant disconnects.Finally, I got fed up with Linksys and tried an Actiontek router. Honestly, IMO blows away Linksys. I&#x27;ve had zero disconnects and the range is much better. I can take my laptop down to my dock w/o fear of losing my connection, @ 150 feet. I never could get that with a Linksys. https://www.actiontec.com/index.php

misfit_aka · Answer

why not just buy a wifi network modem?? less than $100 get you a very good one...

Lippsman · Answer

Time Warner is rolling out thier 3 and 4 G stuff now. But a bit pricey, I think after the introductory stuff it's $70 a month.

I don't like the Wi-Fi modems. Most of them are not that good from your ISP's. What I hate about the routers now, if you buy them off the shelf, they have just internal antennas. That blows !!!!!

Of course I get the ones where you can put a whip antenna on it.

Ed-Collins · Answer

A couple of years ago I experimented with three different brands of wireless routers for my small condo.

None of them did the job. The walls were too thick, or the room with the second computer was a bit too far away, or there was too much interference from somewhere, etc.. etc. Never did figure out why, but the signal from the router was just too weak, or kept dropping.

Decided to just run a direct line from the router to the second computer instead. That required going up into the attic, drilling a hole in the wall, running the cable through the wall, across the attic and then into the second room's bedroom closet, etc.

It was a little bit more work to do all of this but the router and the connection has been fine and trouble-free ever since.

A direct connection from the router is always better than wireless, if that is an option.

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