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ive got a dlink router in the basement and in the basement the wireless is fine, but the upstairs of my house the connection is terribly slow. neither my upstairs pc nor my laptop get a good connection up there. is there any way i can boost the signal of this thing? its a DI 524 model

 
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Yo can buy a wireless repeater, or if you have a cordless phone near the router, check to see if the phone is running on a 2.4Ghz frequency. If so, move the phone. Most wireless routers run on a 2.4Ghz frequency.

 
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thought you could buy an antenna for lappys?...might be wrong tho..

i also need one so i can use the net in tha garage and steal signal off my neighbours....hahaha

 
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thanks man, i played around witht e location of the wireless card upstairs, its one of those usb deala dn more than double my signal strength. guess the walls in the house are a little too thick same withthe floors, lol

 
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how many access points do you have?

 
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uh... what?

 
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When u have a computer network, a Wireless Access Point (WAP) or Access Point (AP) is a device that you use to connect wireless communication devices together forming a wireless network.....WAPs are connected to the wired network, and then relay the data back and forth between the wireless devices and wired devices....when u have many WAPs they link together to form a larger network that allows you to be special and have "roaming" which means that you have a network where client devices manages itself, elimination the need for access points, but then your getting into a different type of networking talk here which are calld "ad-hoc network"....hope you understand now what are access points if u dont then ask me and i will tell you....also what d-link router do u have? G? N? AG?....is it one with range booster?

 
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You can buy an extra entenna to boost te signal, that what i did