OfficeLinebacker
Senior member
Hi. I consider myself pretty knowledgeable about PC hardware but wireless networking, just so-so.
Anyway a friend of mine has a Motorola wireless router but she gets terrible range, even in the next room. Not sure why.
She had someone come over (Geeksquad probably) and they put in these two things. They are both silver plastic, about 3" x 4" square and maybe 2" deep. Both plug right into the wall, say Belkin on them, and have three green LEDs each, all lit.
One has an ethernet port and plugs into a wall outlet. An ethernet cable from one of the LAN ports of the router goes to it. It has 3 green LEDs, all lit: power, network, and one in the middle that looks like a 2-prong power plug.
Then there is another one in another room, with no wires, and the same three lights in the same positions, only the wired networking symbol is replaced by the wireless networking symbol.
It's right behind a desktop with a wireless PCI card in it. The SSID in that room is different to the one associated with the router.
So I get the general gist of what is going on, but I would like to learn more about this.
Can you make the remote SSID the same as the router's, with the same security settings?
Once the wired unit is plugged in, can you have as many remote wireless ones as you want?
I don't even know what to search for, thus this imbecilic thread. What are these things called?
TIY
Anyway a friend of mine has a Motorola wireless router but she gets terrible range, even in the next room. Not sure why.
She had someone come over (Geeksquad probably) and they put in these two things. They are both silver plastic, about 3" x 4" square and maybe 2" deep. Both plug right into the wall, say Belkin on them, and have three green LEDs each, all lit.
One has an ethernet port and plugs into a wall outlet. An ethernet cable from one of the LAN ports of the router goes to it. It has 3 green LEDs, all lit: power, network, and one in the middle that looks like a 2-prong power plug.
Then there is another one in another room, with no wires, and the same three lights in the same positions, only the wired networking symbol is replaced by the wireless networking symbol.
It's right behind a desktop with a wireless PCI card in it. The SSID in that room is different to the one associated with the router.
So I get the general gist of what is going on, but I would like to learn more about this.
Can you make the remote SSID the same as the router's, with the same security settings?
Once the wired unit is plugged in, can you have as many remote wireless ones as you want?
I don't even know what to search for, thus this imbecilic thread. What are these things called?
TIY
