Wireless Improvements???

T4i

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Not been on here in a while, just had the most shitty life of my week.

Basically left my woman, moved out, no more cable :*( but oh well.

Anyhow, I'm back living with the parents who have a Belkin ADSL MIMO router, that is on the top floor of the house and I am 2 floors under.

Been out to get a wireless PCI card, went for the Netgear WPN311 rangemax jobby cos of the distance the signal has to travel.


When I put the wireless card in, and tested it all I was getting a 100% signal, then I pushed my tower back into its corner where it now lives and the signal hads dropped to around 70% mark.

My question is this, what would be better:-

One of those longer aerials with a 9db gain etc

or

A SMA extension lead to basically get the standard aerial away from the walls..

A lead would cost about £10 delivered, and a new aerial would cost a couple quid more.

Not sure what would be best cos I don't know how much power would be lost through a extension cable.

Anyone tried and tested this?
 
by the aerial, I presume you mean the wireless antenna..
I'd just get the extension lead and get it away from the walls it it was at 100% before you moved it!
 
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