I am renting a suite in a house and my landlords wireless is pretty far away causing me to only get 26mbps. I was thinking about getting a WRE. Has anybody used one? Do they work well and is it hard to set up/ keep stable? I am pretty good with computer hardware. Thanks a lot
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Enotic
Canada59 Posts
I am renting a suite in a house and my landlords wireless is pretty far away causing me to only get 26mbps. I was thinking about getting a WRE. Has anybody used one? Do they work well and is it hard to set up/ keep stable? I am pretty good with computer hardware. Thanks a lot | ||
TheUnSeenOne
United States24 Posts
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y0su
Finland7871 Posts
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Gihi
384 Posts
In my days of parental internet issues, I used to use an old wok dish with a hole in the middle to focus my reception to a certain point. Worked like a charm with the Alfa Awus036H. The card without the wok was also a lot better than the multiple other trash cards I bought, but the wok allowed me to raise my reception to a do-able internet connection from a corporate WRE 600 meters away. Anyways, it was good fun playing around with it! Good luck! | ||
Enotic
Canada59 Posts
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Alryk
United States2718 Posts
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dUTtrOACh
Canada2339 Posts
On December 31 2012 05:44 Alryk wrote: Only 26mbps... haha so jealous. Man... here I am getting between 700kbps and 4500kbps on a 30mbps max connection... Where does someone even need more than 26mbps? | ||
Myrmidon
United States9452 Posts
Or are you looking at some wireless status page and it says the link rate is 26 Mbps? (802.11n @ 16-QAM, rate 1/2 code, 20 MHz bandwidth, 1 spatial stream) | ||
R1CH
Netherlands10340 Posts
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zacharyIRL
Canada51 Posts
For the confused people in this thread his download speed is not 26 mbps he is reffering to the wireless speed of his connection it has nothing to do with your internet speed. I would just ask to connect a new router to the modem or if it is a wireless modem then you can connect the router aswell. | ||
mav451
United States1596 Posts
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vrmr
21 Posts
I don't know if they are available in canada, but i am using a bunch of tp-link powerlan adapters. they were cheap and work perfectly for me. I am not using it for gaming, so i don't know about pingtimes with it, but i doubt it'll be worse then a bad wireless connection. | ||
emythrel
United Kingdom2599 Posts
On January 02 2013 08:15 vrmr wrote: as an alternative you could ask them if you are allowed to hook up a powerlan adapter @their router. I am using one in the basement of our house because wlan was unstable from the first floor. worked phase to phase for me. I don't know if they are available in canada, but i am using a bunch of tp-link powerlan adapters. they were cheap and work perfectly for me. I am not using it for gaming, so i don't know about pingtimes with it, but i doubt it'll be worse then a bad wireless connection. I use powerlan in my house cause we are right by powerlines and wifi sucks lol. Works great, lower pings than via wireless by far. | ||
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