(And I may not even have the above terms correct.) Just bought a house and it's large-ish and (more importantly) old, so the wire mesh behind the 100-year-old plaster and lathe walls is interfering with the wireless signal. Now, from what I can tell the simple wireless boosters aren't usually anymore effective than the original wireless router for the same reasons, so that's where I'm hoping someone can offer some suggestions.
Does anyone have any experience with the plug-in access points that extend the wifi through the existing power lines of the house (thankfully the wiring isn't a century old, that was updated more recently) and is power drain/utlity usage enough of an issue to worry about? Or would we be better off running ethernet cables and adding multiple wireless routers throughout the house (figuring on 4, in that scenario--2 downstairs, 2 up?) and how difficult would that be to configure? As for usage, when home we're online pretty much constantly on 2 laptops, a tablet/smartphone or 2, and have been known to be streaming media in 2 rooms simultaneously while each on said laptops, having ditched cable last year. We're not online gamers or running any servers, but other than that I'd say we're fairly heavy users and have the highest level of access Thomasville's CNS offers. -- Jennifer "Scraps" Walker The Helper Monkey Network http://www.jenniferwalkeronline.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
