Thanks Wayne
On 17/12/07 10:35:58, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
Hello Barry,
I had a similar experience with the Rangemax stuff where it gave me an almost imperceptible improvement in range. Like you I think the advertising is misleading, as far as I can tell the rangemax products perform *slightly* better at the fringes of their operating range and due to the diversity antenna used in the AP they might perform better around a house which previously had dead spots due to think walls or whatever. But as to actually having a larger range I was unable to confirm.
At least that confirms my suspicions. In my limited experience it seems that the 'ordinary' WAP plus PCI card is slightly better that the RangeMax stuff.
What I would suggest is returning the rangemax kit as not as described and do the following.
Get a homeplug kit (the netgear stuff is pretty good and I have used the solwise stuff as well) Either get one with 1 Mains to Ethernet converter and one Mains to wireless converter and use the wireless converter to extend the range of your existing wireless in the dead spot.
I had thought of that but we have two phases in the house and signals won't cross from one phase to another. If that isn't enough we have electric heating which is centrally controlled by signals sent through the mains cables and I understand that either that would interfere with the ethernet signals or the ethernet signals may interfere with the heating signals.
It looks as though my only option will be to have a wireless relay but I won't know for sure whether that would work unless I buy another WAP and if it's not sufficient then I would have wasted even more money.