increase wireless range

[jamiepullen]

is there a way to increase the range of the wireless, as i am a bit gutted i cannot quite stream to the room i bought the station for. it is fine a bit closer, but when i put it in the room the connection is intermittent and drops often when playing or just wont connect.

Regards, Jamie

[Mach2]

You need to buy a wireless bridge (or another router) which can almost double the range of your wireless signal. It acts like a relay passing on the signal from your router.
Don't bother looking at larger antennae as these don't work very well.

[jamiepullen]

found a streamium wireless range extender on the net. As it connects intermeittnetly and is only just out of range, does anyone know if i would be likely to have success just fitting a slightly better wifi aerial to the center?

[jamiepullen]

thanks. if i got a bridge, could it handle 2 networks, as i would love to be able to stream to the kitchen and get wifi in the garden on my laptop form my router at the same time...

[jamiepullen]

would something like this work?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120439352069&_trksid=p2759.l1259

[Mach2]

Yep that looks like it should work. Make sure any device you buy is 54g compatible. The faster n devices can usually be configured for 54g only.
It would certainly handle 2 networks but whether it could do so at the same time I don't know - you'd have to experiment bit.
The set up page from my router shows this ....

[jamiepullen]

Thanks alot for your help!