Frustrated by poor signal strength on your network? While there are numerous variables in every home that may be impacting your wireless reception, here are four options you can try to improve it.
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mate there are way to roam between your access points with no disconection from the network :) cheap too
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My house is double storey and there's a fair distance between the front and back of the house. I have 3 access points. Setting up multiple access points is easy. Just set the same SSID and WPA security password, then attach then to the same hardwired network. Use the same or different channels for each access point. Using 3 access points I can wander throughout the house and all around the yard and get 90-100% signal strength at all times. You only have to tell Windows (or linux) the SSID and WPA password and you'll connect to the strongest signal automatically. Moving between routers causes the signal to hang up for 1 second or two - this is a windows issue - nothing to do with the routers. The cheapest way to get an access point is to buy a wireless router then disable the WAN, DHCP and other internet functions. Belkin and others have an easy setting to turn a router into an access point. Then of course you need to hardwire them all to the same network (changing the IP address of each of course!).