Best way to extend wireless range?

[miggols99]

I'm need to find a way to extend the wireless range for my router to the bottom of my garden, which is completely opposite of the router's location. So the range doesn't reach. Is there a way to enhance the signal so it reaches further?

I don't mind buying a new router or any equipment that will help.

[zmjjmz]

Dd-wrt

[miggols99]

Dd-wrt

Unfortunately my current router (the one provided by Sky) is incompatible. Which router works best with this firmware?

[Maheriano]

Normally you can get proprietary effects like some range booster or other thing if you use a receiver and router from the same company. Otherwise if you're running wireless G, I've heard that wireless N technology will send/receive a farther distance.

[miggols99]

Normally you can get proprietary effects like some range booster or other thing if you use a receiver and router from the same company. Otherwise if you're running wireless G, I've heard that wireless N technology will send/receive a farther distance.

Can you use wireless G equipment with a wireless N router and still have better wireless range?

[kerry_s]

Ethernet over Power(eop).
i got a couple of the netgear 102's, it's simple plug in a go, faster than wireless, 0 interference.
http://www.google.com/products/catal...ult#ps-sellers

there's other brands, google it. theres also higher mb models, but my internet is only 3mb max so i didn't need no 85mb model, which costs way more. i got mine on sale cheap, less than $30.

i use it for my room which is actually outside the house, extension, wireless sucked because of the concrete walls.

[miggols99]

Ethernet over Power(eop).
i got a couple of the netgear 102's, it's simple plug in a go, faster than wireless, 0 interference.
http://www.google.com/products/catal...ult#ps-sellers

there's other brands, google it.

i use it for my room which is actually outside the house, extension, wireless sucked because of the concrete walls.

It would be a pain to have ethernet. I would have to plug in my laptop to it to get internet..which defeats the object of the portability of the laptop And I'd also have to get an ethernet adapter for the Wii...

[RaZe42]

You could always try using pringles cans

[Maheriano]

Can you use wireless G equipment with a wireless N router

yes

and still have better wireless range?

No. It'll pick up the G band from the router and skip N completely.

[joshh88]

Right, only the N will get that far. There was a thing on pcworld.com about a parabola calculator. Kinda lika reflector to amplify the signal towards a given area, but this takes away from the area were the parabola reflector is blocking.