I live in a 1950's house so the walls are very thick. Is there an app that acts as an extender or bridge?
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You wish to use your phone just to bridge? I'd personally go for a dedicated extender, or perhaps even a net-over-mains solution, then plug an extender into that (if drilling holes in the wall and routing cat5 isn't your thing.)
If you really must use that lovely device as an extender, however, doesn't 'droid 2.2 have hotspot functionality in it? Perhaps you could try looking at that?
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OK so i just moved in with my parents for financial reasone and need some help figuring this out. We have comcast internet and a linksys wrt54g router with ddwrt firmware. In the house we have 2 desktops 1 laptop 2 xbox 360s 3 androids and 2 ipod touches. The only one with a ethernet is the desktop where the modem and router is at. everything else is wireless. I have constand dropped connection on my other dekstop and box 360. What is the best way to have the best connection. In my room i have the other desktop and xbox 360. I was thinking of runing an ethernet cable from the router to my room through the attic and to a switch and from the switch my desktop and xbox 360. What do you guys think?
Try changing the channels to avoid interference and try a windsurfer
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Another possible option rather than running CAT5 around the house would be mains power networking.
For instance my router is upstairs with my PC and UPS running off it.
It connects to a mains network adaptor, and then downstairs behind the TV I have another one going to a switch which my WII, BluRay and 360 are connected to.
Well I would run the cat5 up the attic then doen to the room I am in....but a main ...never heard of it...how's it work
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Pixa241 said:
Well I would run the cat5 up the attic then doen to the room I am in....but a main ...never heard of it...how's it work
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_line_communication
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_line_communication
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Ok never mind i know what it is now. I just had a different name to it. I have what are called SlingLink Turbo but doesnt work to well either.
Pixa241 said:
Ok never mind i know what it is now. I just had a different name to it. I have what are called SlingLink Turbo but doesnt work to well either.
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Crickey those slinglinks are huge!
I wonder if the different mains voltage over the pond affects their effectiveness.
If the comcast modem is wireless capable, and you can easily take the linksys and set it up as a repeater in the room where you want your desktop, etc and connect using ethernet or wifi in your room. Assuming of course that the dropping issue you have is due to signal strength rather than a router issue.
If you can't move the linksys, grab another off ebay if you don't have another wifi router around that can be flashed so you can use it as a repeater.
Your option for hard wired of course will work. The only issue you may have with a switch and running cat5 is some don't like to work well with long runs. Just a heads up in case you get a cheaper one and plug it in and don't get a connection.
I was at my local computer store yesterday when i saw a pcie x1 Wireless N adapter. I started thinking could I stream to my shield better using a WiFi adapter for my desktop, that supports access point mode.
IF someone has one it might be worth a try.
I have a very strange setup... I have 702 comm. And they gave me a wireless DSL modem. My speeds are supposed to be around 30 megs but I ever got near that until I hooked up my own router to the modem's lan port. Now I get 29mb down and 23mb up! Don't know why upload is so high. But I run a net gear a6200 wireless adapter from my PC to the router, the router gives me 5ghz band and the modem doesn't. I haven't had any problems with this setup really, my streaming games look pretty good, but being further away it disconnects a lot, like 60 feet away in the other room. Tried hooking my router up through as an access point but it took away my 5ghz band, and my connect was about 10mb slower. I don't think my wireless adapter has the access point function.
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The main reason I started thinking this is it would remove Wireless/Wired connections to the Wireless router/access point from the picture.
I see, so your talking about making the PC itself be the access point right? I've found a bunch of software that does this, I'll try it out
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Yup that is the idea.
Faithinchaos21 said:
I see, so your talking about making the PC itself be the access point right? I've found a bunch of software that does this, I'll try it out
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windows itself does
Only computer I have access that has built in wifi has a gt620 and no idea what cpu its built on a mini-itx board.
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windows itself does
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Yeah just tried it, but I couldn't get it working because my WiFi adapter doesn't have that access point mode, even after setting up my ssid and such through cmd prompt. Connectify let me do it, but it really didn't work all that great. I'd say it was just a bit worse than my original settings, someone else have the right WiFi adapter?
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I don't remember the name of the one I had that did support it, but I remember it is more along the lines of does the chipset on the card support it then the brand and model of the card.
I was just wondering how to Use My wired Broadband Connection on my Android phone. I Searched it and found something like a "Wireless USB WiFi Router" but i dont know weather it would act as a Hotspot?and convert the broadband into a WiFi signal? Is this the right thing im looking for? Please help!
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I was just wondering how to Use My wired Broadband Connection on my Android phone. I Searched it and found something like a "Wireless USB WiFi Router" but i dont know weather it would act as a Hotspot?and convert the broadband into a WiFi signal? Is this the right thing im looking for? Please help!
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I personally have not used that specific app but most phones support netive tethering (or sharing your broadband, if that floats your boat). I personally recomend FoxFi, an app developed by the makers of PDAnet, a reliable tethering app. Search the Play Store on YOUR COMPUTER first. Some carriers block the app from showing. Have fun and don't get caught.
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I personally have not used that specific app but most phones support netive tethering (or sharing your broadband, if that floats your boat). I personally recomend FoxFi, an app developed by the makers of PDAnet, a reliable tethering app. Search the Play Store on YOUR COMPUTER first. Some carriers block the app from showing. Have fun and don't get caught.
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He wants to use his cable/dsl connection on his phone, not the other way around.
Connectify might work if you have a Wi-Fi adapter on your PC. But it would probably just be easier to get a wireless router.
Is there anyway of using the super hub 1 from virgin media to act as a wifi extender/repeater?
I currently have a super hub 2 connected but in some spots of the house i cant access wifi or its a poor signal so o was tjinking if it is possible to create a wifi extender from the super hub 1? Any help would be appreciated, and thanks.
skyla20 said:
Is there anyway of using the super hub 1 from virgin media to act as a wifi extender/repeater?
I currently have a super hub 2 connected but in some spots of the house i cant access wifi or its a poor signal so o was tjinking if it is possible to create a wifi extender from the super hub 1? Any help would be appreciated, and thanks.
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It is possible, the easest way is to first change some settings on your old hub, you will need to disable built in features such as the DHCP, secondly you may need to change the old hubs ip, if it is the same as the new one, to prevent a ip address conflict (for example, if they are both using 192.168.1.254 though if yours is an old netgear tg834? Then its probably using 192.168.1.1) , now assuming your old super hub supports the same wireless encryption as the new one, match the wireless ESSID (name) and encryption password (And type! Such as wpa2) so that they appear as the same Wireless network (distributed wireless) and the easesst and most supported method is to then link the two devices via ethernet and place one of them somewhere else in the building where it can provide a signal in the blindspots of your primary superhub.
Also a side not.. If i recall, the most recent superhub uses 802.11n on 5GHz, which does not boad well in old victorian houses, and new ones made with lots of metal strips between plaster boards.. 2.4GHz works better at penetrating walls, so check you dont have this option set to 5GHz under the wireless settings.
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It is possible, the easest way is to first change some settings on your old hub, you will need to disable built in features such as the DHCP, secondly you may need to change the old hubs ip, if it is the same as the new one, to prevent a ip address conflict (for example, if they are both using 192.168.1.254 though if yours is an old netgear tg834? Then its probably using 192.168.1.1) , now assuming your old super hub supports the same wireless encryption as the new one, match the wireless ESSID (name) and encryption password (And type! Such as wpa2) so that they appear as the same Wireless network (distributed wireless) and the easesst and most supported method is to then link the two devices via ethernet and place one of them somewhere else in the building where it can provide a signal in the blindspots of your primary superhub.
Also a side not.. If i recall, the most recent superhub uses 802.11n on 5GHz, which does not boad well in old victorian houses, and new ones made with lots of metal strips between plaster boards.. 2.4GHz works better at penetrating walls, so check you dont have this option set to 5GHz under the wireless settings.
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Ok i will check all that out soon as i have time but thanks also. The house is made in 1970's it is strange that im not getting good signal in the garage room the wireless hub is situated in the living room downstairs then theres a brick wall then the hall way withthe stairs in the middle another small brick wall which leads to the garage room. I get signal but its poor. Would a netgear wifi extender work the one on the net for about £40 if the super hub 1 idea didnt work?
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Ok i will check all that out soon as i have time but thanks also. The house is made in 1970's it is strange that im not getting good signal in the garage room the wireless hub is situated in the living room downstairs then theres a brick wall then the hall way withthe stairs in the middle another small brick wall which leads to the garage room. I get signal but its poor. Would a netgear wifi extender work the one on the net for about £40 if the super hub 1 idea didnt work?
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Yes, any off the shelf Signal "Booster" device should work, I use one at work and it's essentially a small WiFi device that connects to a specified Access point (in your case the super hub) and re-broadcasts the same network settings from it's own wireless card, forwarding any data to and from the original access point like a wireless bridge. the only down side is there is usually a slight decrease in bandwidth with this method, where as using multiple wireless access points, hard-wired in to a network via Ethernet all have their own dedicated connection providing maximum bandwidth. Hope that helps and isn't too technical
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Yes, any off the shelf Signal "Booster" device should work, I use one at work and it's essentially a small WiFi device that connects to a specified Access point (in your case the super hub) and re-broadcasts the same network settings from it's own wireless card, forwarding any data to and from the original access point like a wireless bridge. the only down side is there is usually a slight decrease in bandwidth with this method, where as using multiple wireless access points, hard-wired in to a network via Ethernet all have their own dedicated connection providing maximum bandwidth. Hope that helps and isn't too technical
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I full understand, soon as i get some spare time i will try the settings on the hub etc, if no luvk with that then i will look towards on getting the wifi extender preferably the netgear with two sntennas on for £40, i did hear that that one is only 2.4ghz. Oh well fingers crossed somthing works.
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I full understand, soon as i get some spare time i will try the settings on the hub etc, if no luvk with that then i will look towards on getting the wifi extender preferably the netgear with two sntennas on for £40, i did hear that that one is only 2.4ghz. Oh well fingers crossed somthing works.
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If im not mistaken again (the VM Superhub in my experience is the one at the office) it broadcasts on 2.5 and 5GHz simultaneously, so you may get away with it, the repeater would use the 2.4Ghz band for it's distribution link, and any devices close enough (and supporting) could use the 5GHz band, which in theory would work in your favour, and not effect the repeated signal, giving you a little boost in performance.. this, of course depends on how well the superhub manages its wireless, and i have little faith in it as it is..
If I setup the OnHub router as my primary access point connected to my ISP modem can I use an Apple Airport express or time capsule to extend the network?
I currently have a 3TB time capsule with a couple airport express routers covering my house but would like to get the OnHub. Itd be awesome to be able to use the timecapsule to extend the network of the OnHub though so that Id still be able to do wireless backups of my laptops and have access to the shared media files I have on the time capsule as well..
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If I setup the OnHub router as my primary access point connected to my ISP modem can I use an Apple Airport express or time capsule to extend the network?
I currently have a 3TB time capsule with a couple airport express routers covering my house but would like to get the OnHub. Itd be awesome to be able to use the timecapsule to extend the network of the OnHub though so that Id still be able to do wireless backups of my laptops and have access to the shared media files I have on the time capsule as well..
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you cannot use ur apple routers to extend it. i had 2 apple airport extremes and a 1 airport express as my previous network. the on hub can handle what these could do, the distance coverage is there but not the speed so i bought another onhub but currently it cannot extend the network i have notified google of this feature or addon whatever they want to call it
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i bought another onhub but currently it cannot extend the network i have notified google of this feature or addon whatever they want to call it
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There is an article on connecting multiple OnHubs in the Help Center of the Google On app. Basically, you need to put one (or more ) of the OnHubs into bridge mode. However, to do that you need to first hook it up to a third party router. Not exactly straight forward, but it should be possible.
It will still be connected hard wired. I think he wants something like a wireless extender.
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It will still be connected hard wired. I think he wants something like a wireless extender.
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If you were replying to me, I understood that to be the case. The Help Center article I mentioned was for your reference in using another OnHub as an extender, as you stated it wasn't possible. As far as the op, a Google search for "Apple Airport Bridge Mode" brought up several articles explaining the procedure.
I was speaking to what the op wanted. I wanted a wireless extender not a connected extender in bridge mode.
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I was speaking to what the op wanted. I wanted a wireless extender not a connected extender in bridge mode.
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Sorry, I should have clarified, I was speaking about a wireless bridge.