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Jambo
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Live in a large house with thick concrete floors, my current router doesn't reach my living room, only 1bar of signal on my sofa.

Have a crappy spare old Siemens router, plus a phone socket in the living room, this possible to connect up?

Or do I need to do something other than plug and play?

I might add the router downstairs is coming off a small Ethernet router (I think) so is just an access point?

Halp
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You can set up multiple access points using wifi routers. Have you tried changing channel it broadcasts on to something less common
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How do I set up a new one then?

And nope not tried anything didn't know it had different channels
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Log in to wireless router and try changing channel first.
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How do I do that?
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You got an android phone Jambo? Download wifi analyser, it'll show you what networks are using what channel and help you find a free one.
Jambo
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Nah iPhone Bretticles
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There are ways (normally too complicated for my liking) to get wireless wireless access points, the best way if you could though would be if you can run an ethernet cable to somewhere upstairs then stick another wireless access point on it.
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There's probs an equivalent I'm sure. Search "wifi" on the store.

Then it's a case of going on your router and changing the setting. It should be apparent if you go to the right area, WLAN or somethin like that.

This might not necessarily solve a thing, my folks old house had funny walls that the router wouldn't go through
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What about those plug in jobs? Any good? I.e transmits signal through your power sockets
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HomePlugs, cheap now too, yeah they're good, forgot about those.
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Think it might be the simplest solution.
John
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They'll do the job.
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Home plugs, or 300Mbps/dual band routers.

I've got two 300Mbps routers at home (one downstairs and one upstairs), even when I am sat in my neighbour's house I can get a full signal lol
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Dual band router?
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http://compnetworking.about.com/od/wireless80211/f/dual-band-wireless.htm

Basically it's a router that transmits on two channels simultaneously for increased bandwidth (i.e. faster speeds).

[Edited on 30-06-2012 by Sam]

 
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