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Hey guys, I'm attempting to boost my wireless signal. Apparently outdoors it works pretty well (got 80% in garden) but indoors at a different floor it's horrible, sometimes can't even connect at all. So I went online to find some free solutions. Some of them include:
- Place your router at a central spot, preferably high (did that, it's at the top floor of my house, as central as possible)
- Changing the channel (did that, no result)
- Creating your own directional antenna (www.freeantennas.com).
Problem with that is that it is - yes - directional. I got a desktop that connects wireless at the front of my house, and a laptop that usually connects at the back of my house, or at the garden (also back, obviously). So a directional antenna is going to screw up the signal of my desktop if I wish to boost the back of my house.
So does anyone know a good way of getting an omnidirectional boost, other than buying a repeater or a better wireless antenna?
- Place your router at a central spot, preferably high (did that, it's at the top floor of my house, as central as possible)
- Changing the channel (did that, no result)
- Creating your own directional antenna (www.freeantennas.com).
Problem with that is that it is - yes - directional. I got a desktop that connects wireless at the front of my house, and a laptop that usually connects at the back of my house, or at the garden (also back, obviously). So a directional antenna is going to screw up the signal of my desktop if I wish to boost the back of my house.
So does anyone know a good way of getting an omnidirectional boost, other than buying a repeater or a better wireless antenna?