tsv_1
Well-known member
Hey Guys... just wanted to share the following with any of you who might have wifi range issues in your home.
So, my house poses a number of challenges to good wifi coverage, the primary challenge being that my cable modem is located in my office (over the garage) and therefore fixed at one end of my house. And since I don't have Cat5 strung throughout the place, my wireless router is also located here in the office.
Like any modern household, we have a boatload of wifi devices (computers, servers, handhelds, audio, games, etc) spread throughout, with a few (e.g. my wife's iMac) located at the extreme opposite end of the house (different floor, many walls, and appx 90' away).
I recently bought something called a Bear Extender which is a USB 802.11n dongle and allows you to reconfigure the internal Airport card in the iMac as a local hotspot. While the Bear Extender worked wonders for improving the wifi signal at her iMac, the hotspot function simply never worked regardless of hours spent debugging, reconfiguring, and reaching out to the seller.
So back to the drawing board... earlier this week I was surfing around for wifi repeaters and happened across this little wonder on Amazon. Ordered it wednesday, got it yesterday... followed the ridiculously simple setup process (plug it directly into an electrical outlet, and then into any computer's wired enet port, enter "admin" for username and password, access the config menu, select the wifi network you want to repeat, click "apply"... and done. Wow - how simple is that? Then, plug the Diamond into any outlet in your house where you want to redistribute the target network - that's it, just plug it into an outlet. I chose one located about a 2/3 of the house distance away from my wireless router... and voila! I now have crazy-good signal everywhere in the house - and it's all the same network. It can also be used as a stand-alone hotspot, or as a bridge, but I only needed it configured for repeater mode and man does it work great.
Just wanted to share this with any of you who might also be looking to improve wifi coverage in your place.
Cheers
(and no, I'm neither affiliated with Diamond, nor do I receive any compensation for pitching their product... I'm just so amazed this thing is so dead-simple to setup and use and it works absolutely as advertized, and at a resonable price point... just don't see that too often these days - the large number of rave reviews on Amazon seem justified)
So, my house poses a number of challenges to good wifi coverage, the primary challenge being that my cable modem is located in my office (over the garage) and therefore fixed at one end of my house. And since I don't have Cat5 strung throughout the place, my wireless router is also located here in the office.
Like any modern household, we have a boatload of wifi devices (computers, servers, handhelds, audio, games, etc) spread throughout, with a few (e.g. my wife's iMac) located at the extreme opposite end of the house (different floor, many walls, and appx 90' away).
I recently bought something called a Bear Extender which is a USB 802.11n dongle and allows you to reconfigure the internal Airport card in the iMac as a local hotspot. While the Bear Extender worked wonders for improving the wifi signal at her iMac, the hotspot function simply never worked regardless of hours spent debugging, reconfiguring, and reaching out to the seller.
So back to the drawing board... earlier this week I was surfing around for wifi repeaters and happened across this little wonder on Amazon. Ordered it wednesday, got it yesterday... followed the ridiculously simple setup process (plug it directly into an electrical outlet, and then into any computer's wired enet port, enter "admin" for username and password, access the config menu, select the wifi network you want to repeat, click "apply"... and done. Wow - how simple is that? Then, plug the Diamond into any outlet in your house where you want to redistribute the target network - that's it, just plug it into an outlet. I chose one located about a 2/3 of the house distance away from my wireless router... and voila! I now have crazy-good signal everywhere in the house - and it's all the same network. It can also be used as a stand-alone hotspot, or as a bridge, but I only needed it configured for repeater mode and man does it work great.
Just wanted to share this with any of you who might also be looking to improve wifi coverage in your place.
Cheers
(and no, I'm neither affiliated with Diamond, nor do I receive any compensation for pitching their product... I'm just so amazed this thing is so dead-simple to setup and use and it works absolutely as advertized, and at a resonable price point... just don't see that too often these days - the large number of rave reviews on Amazon seem justified)
