I've never had much luck with the wireless on the Netgear routers. I like the routers but I too have struggled with getting range.
For various reasons I also have a BT router/hub (the slightly older one now) on my other DSL line and as an experiment I replaced the DG834 I have with the BT one and the range was significantly different. Where before I was struggling getting a signal around the house (and it ain't too big) the BT router will let me get to the bottom of the garden with a laptop. I can't see it being wireless power, perhaps the aerials are better or the signal is better quality. The BT router is I believe a Thomson device at core. It also has one or two other useful facilities like a local DNS resolver so you can actual use proper URIs for internal computers, everything becomes something.home ie http://musicserver.home:9000 works nicely. What you can try with the Netgear is that since it has an external aerial you can get replacements, you could try one with a higher gain. This tends to make it more directional in the horizontal plane (or rather the plane perpendicular to the antenna) but can increase the range. Not sure what the current price is I seem to recal around £90. There are quite a few others around of course and some of them can be reflashed to support open source software which provides increased facilities. -- Zaragon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Zaragon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14577 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54691
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