Have you looked into buying a Hot Spot? It's not a lot larger than a credit card, battery powered 4-G router and it works wonderfully. Very fast and easy to move around the house. I bought mine an ATT store.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/208154/mobile_hotspots_which_are_fastest_most_reliable.html -- Linda On Jan 22, 2012, at 7:12 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote: No way to do this with out tearing walls out or having exposed wires. So thanks, but no thanks! :-) Sunday, January 22, 20121:46 PMJonathan [email protected] > Harry, > > If it were me I would run an ethernet cable from the main router to the > back of the house and put in another wireless access point. It's easier > and more reliable from a wireless point of view, but running that cable > might be the hard part. > > If you have a basement or a crawl space that you can run the cable the > length of the house, it would be fairly easy to put a ethernet jack in > the wall next to your router, run the cable down in the wall into the > basement and then across the ceiling, floor joists, or whatever you have > in your basement, and back up to a wall plate in the back of the house > where you plug in your WAP. > > Such a solution would use inexpensive parts and be the most reliable. > > The feasibility equation would depend entirely on how your house is laid > out and how badly you want wireless in the back of your house. > > j. > > > On Jan 22, 2012, at 12:00 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer <[email protected]> wrote: > > I live in a 3 story victorian era home. > > The front part of the house is separated from the back part by an 18" > thick brick wall (of course there are doors between the front and back > sections. > > There are only 2 rooms on the third floor both over the front part of > the house. > > My internet connection (Bellsouth DSL connected to a Cisco/Linksys > wireless routher) comes in to the house in the front room on the second floor. > > I receive a good signal (3 bars) in the front rooms on the 1st, 2nd, and > 3rd floors. The 3rd floor has only two rooms. I receive an ok signal (2 > bars) in the back room on the 3rd floor and a good signal in the 2nd > floor room immediately behind the front room. > > For the back part of the house it's a different story. > > In the two back rooms on the second floor I receive an ok signal and in > the 2nd room on the 1st floor I get an ok signal but in the other two > rooms (the ones on the other side of the 18" brick wall) on the 1st > floor I don't get any wireless signal at all. > > Is there anything I can do to get a wireless signal to the back of my > house to improve the signal I receive on the first floor and to get the > signal to the back two rooms and deck on the first floor? > _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
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