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Martian

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Re: WiFi Woes
« Reply #15 on: 30 May 2011, 08:45:13 »
I have an old Netgear DG834 sat here if you want that mate, 100% rock solid, and the kids never had any real issues with signal strength when it was in use.

It's a straight swap for your old Sky router once we have extracted your username/password (which isn't difficult even though Sky tried their hardest to make it so).

It's yours if you want to try it, and if it works you are welcome to keep it.
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Re: WiFi Woes
« Reply #16 on: 30 May 2011, 09:13:45 »
some routers can be switched to run as an extender. you plug it in via ethernet to the sky router and use the wireless on that.
see here for more info http://www.ehow.com/how_6830480_convert-range-booster-new-router.html
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Martian

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Re: WiFi Woes
« Reply #17 on: 30 May 2011, 09:36:48 »
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some routers can be switched to run as an extender. you plug it in via ethernet to the sky router and use the wireless on that.
see here for more info http://www.ehow.com/how_6830480_convert-range-booster-new-router.html
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Kind of defeats the object of being wireless if you have to run a bit of Cat5 to it IMO.
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Re: WiFi Woes
« Reply #18 on: 30 May 2011, 10:02:40 »
Thanks for the offer M. I'll try my d-link and see how that goes :y
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Re: WiFi Woes
« Reply #19 on: 31 May 2011, 18:45:51 »
Some silly idiot (::)) wiped out the public, local council provided, wifi for an Oxfordshire town a few years back, by moving his brother's wifi yagis (16km range if you believe the BS) so that one end wasn't on a 3m pole (that swayed, causing dropouts).

I didn't notice the public aerial was perfect line of site behind it. Opps. First we knew was when a man in a nice suit popped around ;D
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« Reply #20 on: 31 May 2011, 20:44:05 »
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I didn't notice the public aerial was perfect line of site behind it. Opps. First we knew was when a man in a nice suit popped around ;D
Many years ago (1982) I worked part time for a company called Rainbow Communications in Tooting (SW London).
The main trade was amateur radio & CB, the "backdoor" trade was building FM transmitters that would broadcast anywhere between 88 - 108 MHz ;)

What we were doing was not illegal in itself, providing we were never caught with the transmitters in operation, but that didn't stop the regular raids visits from the DTi :) :)

Those were the days...... :'(
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