TheKillJoy
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Hello Techs,
I am brand new so forgive me if i'm posting to the wrong forum.
Ok, my deal here is that i have a wireless router/modem (Cisco DPC 3825) that is from my ISP and I have my laptop in the top level of my house and the router/modem is in the basement with a kitchen in between.
I sometimes lose signal strength or it just drops the connection all together on my laptop. I also have a Xbox on the top level that has problems as well.
I have 2 Xbox's in the house (one on the main floor and one in my room top level) that I would like to connect wirelessly with a better signal strength than what i have right now because right now the Xbox (not mine) on the main floor gets better signal strength than mine.
The one problem I see is that the router/modem only broadcasts at 2.4GHz and there is a lot of clutter on the network also including 3 laptops, 2 Xbox's, 4 24 GHz wireless phones (not sure that it matters but might as well list it), 3 Apple Products (iPad, iPhone, iPod), and 2 Blackberry's all using 2.4Ghz.
So my questions to you tech's are:
Would it be worth getting the Entertainment bridge upstairs where the laptop and Xbox are to cover the top floor or are the walls between the router/modem and bridge going to kill my connection to the bridge?
Would it be worth calling the ISP and turning the router/modem into just a router?
Is there any other things that I could try before I start creating holes in my house to run CAT 5e to the top level?
Please help me out.
Any and all help is greatly appreciated and if you need more information on the situation let me know
-TheKillJoy
I am brand new so forgive me if i'm posting to the wrong forum.
Ok, my deal here is that i have a wireless router/modem (Cisco DPC 3825) that is from my ISP and I have my laptop in the top level of my house and the router/modem is in the basement with a kitchen in between.
I sometimes lose signal strength or it just drops the connection all together on my laptop. I also have a Xbox on the top level that has problems as well.
I have 2 Xbox's in the house (one on the main floor and one in my room top level) that I would like to connect wirelessly with a better signal strength than what i have right now because right now the Xbox (not mine) on the main floor gets better signal strength than mine.
The one problem I see is that the router/modem only broadcasts at 2.4GHz and there is a lot of clutter on the network also including 3 laptops, 2 Xbox's, 4 24 GHz wireless phones (not sure that it matters but might as well list it), 3 Apple Products (iPad, iPhone, iPod), and 2 Blackberry's all using 2.4Ghz.
So my questions to you tech's are:
Would it be worth getting the Entertainment bridge upstairs where the laptop and Xbox are to cover the top floor or are the walls between the router/modem and bridge going to kill my connection to the bridge?
Would it be worth calling the ISP and turning the router/modem into just a router?
Is there any other things that I could try before I start creating holes in my house to run CAT 5e to the top level?
Please help me out.
Any and all help is greatly appreciated and if you need more information on the situation let me know
-TheKillJoy