[AccessD] MIMO-G router

I have a small single level house(about 1600sq.ft)...I have a cheap linxus wireless router...and have no issue anywhere in the house.  I also use it outside on the deck(back of house) in the garage(front of house)and I have gone as far as sitting at my neighbors house( a little slower there).  Mostly for internet, but also for file sharing and printing.  

I have been to both of your houses...and I believe both are multi level...which makes me wonder how directional wireless routers are?

Mark A. Matte


> From: rockysmolin at bchacc.com
> To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
> Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:58:24 -0800
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] MIMO-G router
>
> John:
>
> I struggled with the wireless thing for a couple of years. Same problem -
> weak signal even after I upgraded to the Netgear Rangemax.
>
> I solved the problem with the Netgear wall-plugged bridge (XE102). They're
> rock solid, no installation, no configuration, no wireless security issue,
> plug and play. It's like a hard wired connection and uses you house wiring.
>
>
> So no more wireless.
>
>
> Rocky
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> Subject: [AccessD] MIMO-G router
>
> Santa dropped off one of those new routers (Netgear WPN824v2) which have a
> bunch of antennas and dynamically selects the one picking up the strongest
> signal and uses that for talking to the wireless computers (mostly laptops).
> I have to say that it kinda sorta works. I bought it specifically because
> Mary's laptop, down a floor and a couple of rooms over, has poor reception.
> I use Network Stumbler to test signal strength. After the install, with the
> old router still out there, her laptop gets roughly the same, or slightly
> poorer reception via this new router in her office. However if I take her
> laptop on out to the dining room at the far end of the house, the signal
> strength is definitely higher, by about 6db on average and sometimes more,
> than the old router.
>
> I am looking to buy my wife a Tivo Series 2 and will need the usb wireless
> to do the phone home stuff. It will be in the living room at the far end of
> the house, so it is encouraging that I get that much better reception down
> there. I already have an old Series 1 Tivo down in the bedroom directly
> below my office, and am buying a bridge to put on it to get the wireless
> down to it. Currently I am running a cable down the stairs and manually
> connecting it to the Series 1 once a week to phone home. Yuk!
>
> I am looking to keep the old router in place however and put the new one "in
> parallel", i.e. I will place a plain old vanilla 10/100 switch immediately
> behind the cable modem, then plug BOTH wireless routers in to that. Thus I
> can have a wireless system (the new one) that talks to the internet, but not
> to my internal (business) LAN. The original router will talk to the
> internet as well but will have its firewall between the internal LAN and the
> new router. All of the Tivos and my wife's laptop and my son's laptop will
> all talk to the internet through the new router and not be behind the
> business firewall (the old wireless router).
>
> The hoops we jump through.
>
> John W. Colby
> Colby Consulting
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
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