Wireless network help required!
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Posting on behalf of a friend who has an "interesting" issue with his wireless networking at home which has got me stumpted - can anyone help??
An overview of the problem is that my friend is on AOL broadband which is supplied on a phone line to the office in the front of his house (Only) and his new PS3 at the rear of the house cannot pick up this network at all!
If we move the PS3 to his front room (Adjacent to the office)then we get a very weak signal and it does connect to the web.
Originally he had the standard AOL wireless router which we thought was the issue so he bought a Netgear DG834PN router, as it's designed for getting a signal round a large house or office, but it's made no difference.
He's tried swapping the wireless channels with no joy.
Unfortunately moving the router isn't really an option as his broadband phone line is for business and is only available in his office. ideally I guess the router should be more central in the house but i really think it should still be able to get the signal round the house - i pick up 3 networks in my street with no bother.
Any idea's for anything I can try as I'm popping across in the next week or two (he's not too local to me) and it would be great to have a few things to try. I'm taking my laptop across to see how far the signal gets at the moment
Thanks in advance for your help
Cheers
Paul
An overview of the problem is that my friend is on AOL broadband which is supplied on a phone line to the office in the front of his house (Only) and his new PS3 at the rear of the house cannot pick up this network at all!
If we move the PS3 to his front room (Adjacent to the office)then we get a very weak signal and it does connect to the web.
Originally he had the standard AOL wireless router which we thought was the issue so he bought a Netgear DG834PN router, as it's designed for getting a signal round a large house or office, but it's made no difference.
He's tried swapping the wireless channels with no joy.
Unfortunately moving the router isn't really an option as his broadband phone line is for business and is only available in his office. ideally I guess the router should be more central in the house but i really think it should still be able to get the signal round the house - i pick up 3 networks in my street with no bother.
Any idea's for anything I can try as I'm popping across in the next week or two (he's not too local to me) and it would be great to have a few things to try. I'm taking my laptop across to see how far the signal gets at the moment
Thanks in advance for your help
Cheers
Paul
Cheers for all the replies guys - appreciated!
It's strange as his house is a relatively new one, so we're not talking massive 16th century walls 8ft thick walls or anything
, but for some reason the router struggles to push the signal around.
I've done some reading up on this in the last few weeks and i didn't appreciate that things like, cordless phones, microwaves, even PS3 wireless controllers can all affect the signal... so I'm assuming all these aren't helping.
Great idea with the devices that use your mains circuits - they sound just the job as he literally wants his PS3 on the network so no need for wireless for laptops etc
I'll get him to send his router back and see about getting some of those wall plugs. I'm popping across in a couple of weeks and I'm taking my router, just to prove his isn't dodgy - you never know!
Thanks again!
It's strange as his house is a relatively new one, so we're not talking massive 16th century walls 8ft thick walls or anything
, but for some reason the router struggles to push the signal around.I've done some reading up on this in the last few weeks and i didn't appreciate that things like, cordless phones, microwaves, even PS3 wireless controllers can all affect the signal... so I'm assuming all these aren't helping.
Great idea with the devices that use your mains circuits - they sound just the job as he literally wants his PS3 on the network so no need for wireless for laptops etc
I'll get him to send his router back and see about getting some of those wall plugs. I'm popping across in a couple of weeks and I'm taking my router, just to prove his isn't dodgy - you never know!
Thanks again!
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