Wireless Access Point / Signal Enhancement?

I have a bit of a project ahead of me

I’m looking to Increase my Wireless signal.
Being in a Basement apartment causes some grief with this issue.

Now My hope is to do this for under 100$ FREE being better
I have two extra routers to work with a D-Link WBR 1310
and a TRENDnet tew-432brp

Now I know their old and Junk (TRENDnet)

So , I was hoping to turn one of them into a Repeater , Access point, something to enhance my signal to increase my Connection for both my PC’s.

Any ideas on how to do this?
My Primary Router is a Wirless N Cisco

My end hope is to achieve at least a 80-100% connection rate for my apartment depending on my location of course. Something Gaming worthy , Stream Worthy and more importantly Backup worthy. I daily back up to an off site server I have.

I welcome all Ideas, options , and Theory’s alike. More then willing to attempt them.

Thanks in Advance
Well unfortunately the Wireless N has no external Antenna , nor does it have the ability to add one it seems.

I need a situation that has no wires. This is why it’s more then a typical project for me.

So , unfortunately I Won’t be able to use any wires with this..

My hope was to get the Wireless N to connect to one of the Standard Routers and then (essentially) bounce the signal from the router to my PC’s and any other things.. Gaming Consoles etc..

So
Main Floor Wireless N —> Router G in Basement —> PC(s)

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2 Responses

andrew civic
22 Aug 2010

I don’t know much about repeaters and such but signal degradation can be caused by interference. 802.11g routers use 2.3Ghz unfortunately some cordless phones and some microwaves also run at around 2.4 to combat this g routers have 11 channels each channel is 3 Mhz apart. most people use 1 6 11. i would try each of those for a day or two and see if you notice a difference

~civic

Yogesh Dhandhari
22 Aug 2010

In the wireless world, the power of the radio plays an important role and if you want to increase the coverage then you need to increase this power. The only way to icrease the power is to use a high gain antennae, probably a 12 dbi Omni directional indoor antennae should serve the purpose.
Please check your router for connectivity to an external antennae, if not available then confirm whether you have additional LAN ports on router, if it is there then you can buy a low cost Access Point with Power 100 mW and deploy the same by connecting with wired to your router.

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