The wireless range on the Livebox is pretty poor at best. I live in a modern built with walls of cardboard, only two bedroom and my laptop dropsout Netgear WPN111 USB adaptor,this never happened with my Netgear 834 router. I use the livebox for Talk/VOIP service, so I dont want to replace it.
The plan is to swtich off the wireless in the livebox, leave the DHCP service running, connect an AP (with possibly a directional antenna). The AP will manage security (WPA-PSK). Livebox will do DHCP and firewall.
Anyone have any other ideas to extend the wireless range before I go out and buy an AP. The livebox cant be moved to increase the range.
Yeah changing channels is the way to go first. Seen it go from not even detecting the livebox on one channel to an excellent signal on another.
The AP router makes sense but it can be tough getting the two to work together correctly. There's all sorts of wierd problems that can crop up for that sort of setup.
Hadnt thought of changing the channels. Gave it a go, initially got good results. A couple of channels were completely dead, had to hard wire the PC to the Livebox to change the channel again.
My desktop started at 108Mbps - Very good, when I connect the Laptop (wireless to Livebox) the signal drops to 54Mbp - Low and browsing the web from the desktop has a marked latency (the pages load quickly but after a pause). This pause doesnt happen when the desktop is connected alone.
Downloading files, I do get the max speed of the ADSL connection 2Mbps, but its the lag when I click on internet link that is really bugging me.
The laptop connectes at 18 - 36Mbp - Low - Good, when placed next to the PC or anywhere in the same room. The same latency occurs in the way on the laptop.
This was never an issue with the Netgear router. I am probably going to buy a cheap AP from ebay, try it out and see if it helps.
Hmm so your desktop has some sort of dual wireless system? As far as I know the livebox only does 54mbps wireless connections. If there's the option in the adapter software try setting it to a 54mbps only connection and see if that stabilises it at all.
Not a dual wireless system, I use a USB Netgear WG111T, capable of max 108Mbps, which should drop down to 54Mbps automatically, there are no options in the driver/software to manually fix the rate at 54Mbps even through the Network connection options.
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