Extending Wireless Connection

We use a Linksys E4200 for our main wireless hub. There is a room at one end of our home that will sometimes drop the connection. When it is connected it is very slow.

I am trying to figure out the best way to extend wireless to that room. I can run CAT 6 cable through our attic if needed and it would not be too terribly difficult to do.

I searched and it seems like there are fifty-eleven different suggestions on how to do it, but I could not find any comparisons as to which works the best.

Oh... and I also have an extra Linksys WRT54G v.3 router that is not being used.

 

Router Setup: Connecting two routers wired to create a single LAN

I'd set up yur WRT54G as an extender.

 

Are you using 2.4 or 5GHz when having this issue? If 5GHZ try connecting at 2.4GHz and see if your range is better.

 

It is connecting at 2.4... won't connect at 5 when in that room.

 

Powerline ethernet might do the trick. I've used it thru every generation of the standard. In some houses it will never work or only work so far. But for your average relatively modern house it works very well.

 

I have had success using these extenders:

Wireless Networking | 802.11g Wireless Repeater / Extender / Access Point

I live in a brick house built in the 40's with plaster walls. My cable modem and E4200 sit in a room on the furthest right room in the house on the main floor, and I have had to extend wireless coverage to the upper level and basement. I have three of these staged around the house. On the main floor, I have one staged in the 3rd of 4 rooms across. In other words:

4

3 Encore Extender


2

1 Cable Modem + E4200



This allows wireless to get to room 4 on the main level and covers the gaps and drop-outs I was getting in the back rooms (that run behind these four rooms).

You may have to hunt around to find these. When I bought them last year they were going for $25 a piece.
- Vr/Zeuxidamas..>>

 

Antenna mod ! if you're advanced, get some good high dBi antennas with some connectors and replace the PIFA antennas inside the routers (most routers nowadays have this kind of antennas)

 

Install DDWRT on that WRT54 and set it up as a Repeater

 

At this point I have ran a Cat6 cable from the E4200 to the WRT54G in the other room.

My DSL modem IP address is 192.168.1.1

My E4200 IP address is 192.168.0.1

I changed the IP address of the WRT54G to 192.168.1.2 and turned off DHCP.

I set the wireless SSID the same on both routers, set one to channel 6 and the other to channel 11.

I connected the CAT6 cable to port 1 on both routers.

I see both identical SSID names in my wireless connections available, but I am not seeing any better throughput to my laptop.

What might I be doing wrong?

 

I am having difficulty with getting back into the 192.168.1.2 router after making changes.

Here are my main settings: