Have a Netgear DG834GT in office above garage which is seperate from the house. Within the house have PC with Netgear 311T card.

The Netgear in the house reads 78% signal strenght but gives only between 1 and 11m connection speed, sometimes this is not stable at all. Appears to be connected Skype reads connect but IE/Firefox etc will not connect

What can be done?

Cheers for help

Nick

 

A long length of CAT5 cable and a 10mm masonry bit should do it.

Check the router settings and the wireless card settings are the same ie. at the max speed settings (I think its 108Mbps for the DG834GT). I get a bit of speed variance on my own wireless network, but not usually less than 16Mbps even through 2 walls.

 

Both router and card are 108, they are both set to default, so can deal with all speeds but still now only reading 5.5Mbps

 

Try changing channels on the router. Sometimes there's interference from other sources eg cordless phones and the like

 

Tried chages all channels still no improvement

 

Hello

You can buy a larger antenna.

I have a couple of (cheap) airlink ones:



And that increased the range.

Steve

 

Steve

Thanks for this, looks like this is the way I have to go or use MJW option with a drill

 

Where are you in East Sussex? You are weclome to try the aerials first to see if it makes a difference. I'm in Crowborough.

Steve

 

Steve

Thanks for the offer I'm down in Battle so may take you up on the offer.

Have had a long chat with NetGear who have tried to help but no joy, I should get a call from a senior Technician in 48hrs, we will see

 

Not exactly solving the problems - but a decent length of Cat5 WAS a good suggestion