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solve my internet troubles...
I have cable high speed internet at home with a cable modem. It's set up in my office, at one end of my house. From the cable modem I have a wireless modem that has a wired connection to my 2 desktop computers and I use wireless for my laptop but my living room is at the other end of the house and the signal is very weak there. I tried hooking up two routers (first a wired, then my wireless) in series from the cable modem but it doesn't work or at least I couldn't get it to work. I figured I could run a longer cable from the first and locate my wireless router in a more central location. Is there something I could buy to connect to the cable modem so I can run 2 routers from it?
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07-04-2005, 06:22 AM
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How about running one of these from your wireless router?
Just install this Access Point in a centralized location in your house and wire it to the router. Should take care of your problem. Randy
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07-04-2005, 07:01 AM
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Not sure what brand of equipment you have, but there may be a "speed booster" type of device that you can buy.
I have seen success using LinkSys equipment that had similar signal problems. The LinkSys SpeedBooster device worked great.
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07-04-2005, 07:04 AM
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Pick-up a Belkin Pre-N wireless router and all your troubles will be solved.
Very fast, very far away. We push a signal to a core workgroup and then to over 100 feet away with no difference in speed. Prior to this we had a G router and an access point and way too much time on the phone with India.
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07-04-2005, 07:11 AM
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Here's the equipment I currently have:
Motorola SURFboard Cable modem (provided by cable Co.) Linksys model WRT54GS wireless router w/Speedbooster Network Everywhere (Linksys Group) NR041-WM 4-port wired router (not currently used but available) My living room is approximately 60 ft from my office with a few walls, one being concrete, and a floor in between. I think I might try Randy's suggestion using the Linksys Access Point first. Thanks guys for your suggestions. Dave
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07-04-2005, 09:36 AM
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did you re-boot your cable modem? all i had to do to get my router to work. unplug it from power for a couple minutes than try again
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