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Originally Posted by handyman
I wish they where stronger because I do a fair amount of file transfer on the network and there are 3 networked printers traffic and I had a spare 54G belkin router that served the whole house bar my bloody room...
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I found experimenting with different channels resulted in a noticeable improvement, but the one thing I've not done yet is build a small, high shelf to sit it on. TBH it's really not in the best position at the moment but cable length and lack of time are preventing me finding a 'quick fix'. But it works in the lounge, where I sometimes browse in the evening, and in the dining room, where I sit if I'm working from home, so I'm not in a big hurry to start any DIY.
The only problem is if the lappy loses the signal, it can be a right pain getting back onto the LAN, something about the DHCP seems to go b0rked and forces a reboot and/or ipconfig /release /renew and/or rebooting the router and/or releasing all the assigned IPs on the router itself before it works again. I'm not sufficiently experienced with wireless networks to know if this is something that is a problem on any where the signal is low, or just on Belkin units. Mother-in-law's device does the same.