Wireless N Routers

Tom Watson · 2008-04-27T17:59:36+00:00

I often use my laptop in the shop (OBWW).I was using a Netgear router and had indifferent connectivity in theshop. The shop is about fifty feet on line of sight from the routerand is at a point at about forty five degrees down from the router'sposition on the third floor of the house.The signal must pass through a sliding glass door and the roof of theshop, which is insulated with R-19 fluff (6 inches) and is furthercomposed of composite shingles and 5/8" decking.We gave our daughter a Macbook for her birthday on the 23d.I was against her joining Mac cult - but there it is.It did not play well with the Netgear router.I purchased a Linksys WRT160N router and five out of our six boxeshooked up happily (including the Mac) - leaving only a Win95 eralaptop, whose USB adapter did not speak the current encryption (WPA2)- no great loss.I semi justified the purchase by assuming that the alleged increase inrange for the N router would mean that I would not have to be so fussyabout my positioning the laptop out in the shop.Not so.Here is my question - does the extended range depend on having awireless N adapter on the box, or is the range simply a fucntion ofthe router signal?All of my adapters, both internal and external are B and G.tom - still barely in range in pennsyltucky.Tom Watsontjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet

Apr 27, 2008 21 Replies

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Upscale 18 years ago

You can use whatever wireless router you want. The wireless signal bouncing around your place will have absolutely nothing to do with the adsl signal that's going through your phone lines.

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Mark & Juanita 18 years ago

Thanks-that looks like a good idea. Would have worked really well on the D-link router, may be a bit more of a challenge on the Time Capsule.

I think I can direct the energy in the right directions to serve all of the computers by angling the reflector correctly.

Of course, that's been the case since installing the routers.

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