Need a stronger signal.

[Terra Vye]

Well I've just gotten high speed internet and things have gone pretty smooth other than the cable company having to come out and tweak/remove a "high pass" as they called it at the telephone pole. I have a cable modem/wireless access point, Motorola SBG900. We have one computer, the furthest away from the cable modem that can not get a stable connection. It is using a Netgear 802.11g PCI card, model WG311.

http://broadband.motorola.com/consumers/products/sbg900/

http://www.netgear.com/products/details/WG311.php

It can detect the network and connect but the signal is so low the connection icon in the bottom right of the screen stays with a red x but I can still surf. It will also lose the signal than get it back, this happens often. However I can get a laptop in there with wireless and it gets a low 11Mbps signal and is stable. The desktop is against the wall shared with the bathroom on the other side, which I think is the problem. Will the piping mess up the signal?

My point being I'm looking into a wireless antenna, so far I have found these two but the reviews are hit and miss. Has anyone found a good solution for this? Moving the computer isn't something that we want to do.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000ABPKG/sr=8-1/qid=1142040413/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-5515606-6780700?%5Fencoding=UTF8

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00006SCIX/sr=8-7/qid=1142040413/ref=pd_bbs_7/104-5515606-6780700?%5Fencoding=UTF8

Thanks.

[GIXXERGUY6]

how old is your house? chicken wire in the walls will interfere with the wireless signal.

we have a  new house sending a signal out to the inlaws next lot over, about 600 ft and it was having a hard time keeping signal, we have the linksys wrt54gs, so we got a external base from linksys and the 7db ant's and they keep a nice strong signal all the time. my new laptop however with the internal wifi get sketchy about the end of the driveway which is about 5-700 ft.

I would like to get an ant. for the outside of the house so i can go to the back of the property if needed but the property is 5 acres.

now my buddy has wireless at his house and getting a good strong signal from the house to the shop(about 200 ft wide open area) is difficult lol.

it also depends on what frequency your phones run on as well, some microwaves will interfere with the wireless also.

hope my rambling helped

goodluck

[dn0]

Like GIXXERGUY6 said, make sure there are no 2.4 GHz phones near the PC or wireless access point.

My parents had issues until I drove 200 miles to their home just to find that her 2.4 GHz phone was right next to the laptop, now all is well.

As for the external antenna; that will most likely stabilize your connection.

I would go that route.

You could even try a high gain antenna on both the AP and the far computer if you wanted.

Just be sure that the add on antenna has the proper connector. (ie: reverse SMA, etc.)

[Guest PeePs]

My parents had issues until I drove 200 miles to their home just to find that her 2.4 GHz phone was right next to the laptop, now all is well.

what a nice son you are to drive 200 miles to help your parents, but damnnnnnnnnnnn that musta sucked.

[inmate717]

D-Link has a good high gain antenna for around 50-60 dollars with the connector base and all its a pretty good setup i am using one for a wireless security cam on the edge of a property and it works nicely of course i also used the dd-wrt firmware for my linksys router

Edit: i was wrong circuitcity.com

http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/D-Link-Omni-Directional-Indoor-Antenna-ANT24-0700/sem/rpsm/oid/134925/catOid/-12980/rpem/ccd/productDetail.do

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