hi. i have a question. my friend has a befw11s4 v2 router with latest firmware. i just got him hooked up to ps2 online with the adapter, wga11b wireless adapter, etc. he can connect and everything upstairs, but the signal is so weak that he keeps getting booted for having extensive delay. now i know its the signal because i used netstumbler on his laptop and the signal is very low. would putting the rangemax router in his house help that at all and would it give out better signal and increased range over the befw11s4? he just doesnt want to spend the money on it and see it not work. he has singal all downstairs fine, but upstairs in drops off very much so. we have already tried 9dbi antennas and those did nothing. please help!!
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The RangeMax and or all the other MIMOs do not provide a stronger signal. They just squeeze more bandwidth by shift flip-flopping between the Antennas.
As a result, they might help on extending range only under specific situations, and need both Access point and Client to be MIMI capable (I.e. almost $150- $200 expense).
Entry Level Routers by default Transmit about 35-40 mW of a 2.4GHz signal.
The nice thing about the Hardware is that it is a real equal opportunity device.
I.e. if your environment kills 40mW, it would kill it whether it is carried by SMC, Linksys, D-Link etc.
There are few means to extend coverage, and they cost money and it is Hard to predict which one would do the best for minimal Cost since it is highly environment specific.
Therefore, you have to study the option and try (Which is what scientists usually do).
Link to: Extending the Distance of Entry Level Wireless Network.
Link to: Wirelessly Bridging Home / Network.
Link to: Hi Gain Antenna for Entry Level Wireless.
An Additional solution is to get the Linksys WRT54g (Version 3-4) flash it with 3rd party firmware and try to use higher transmitting power. It is my least preferred option, but some people ?live? (or ?die?) by it.
:sun:
As a result, they might help on extending range only under specific situations, and need both Access point and Client to be MIMI capable (I.e. almost $150- $200 expense).
Entry Level Routers by default Transmit about 35-40 mW of a 2.4GHz signal.
The nice thing about the Hardware is that it is a real equal opportunity device.
I.e. if your environment kills 40mW, it would kill it whether it is carried by SMC, Linksys, D-Link etc.
There are few means to extend coverage, and they cost money and it is Hard to predict which one would do the best for minimal Cost since it is highly environment specific.
Therefore, you have to study the option and try (Which is what scientists usually do).
Link to: Extending the Distance of Entry Level Wireless Network.
Link to: Wirelessly Bridging Home / Network.
Link to: Hi Gain Antenna for Entry Level Wireless.
An Additional solution is to get the Linksys WRT54g (Version 3-4) flash it with 3rd party firmware and try to use higher transmitting power. It is my least preferred option, but some people ?live? (or ?die?) by it.
:sun:
Flip flopping between the antennas is spatial diversity and 802.11 devices with two antennas have been doing that all along. What MIMO does is spatial multiplexing. In very general terms it's multiple paths along the same channel.
It fills in dead spots and in cases where there are obstructions does increase range in theory. In the real world results have been somewhat mixed. So it's not a blanket answer but yes, MIMO should extend coverage in most houses.
It's true a 30 mW signal doesn't magically become 60 or 90 mW with Multiple In Multiple Out AP's, so in that aspect signal is not increased. Power isn't increased. Coverage by and large is.
It fills in dead spots and in cases where there are obstructions does increase range in theory. In the real world results have been somewhat mixed. So it's not a blanket answer but yes, MIMO should extend coverage in most houses.
It's true a 30 mW signal doesn't magically become 60 or 90 mW with Multiple In Multiple Out AP's, so in that aspect signal is not increased. Power isn't increased. Coverage by and large is.
The MIMO needs the Flip-Flopping; while you have many Uni Antenna 802.11b/g you would not find a Uni Antenna MIMO.
As I posted above solving Distance problems with MIMO depends on the specific environment. In an environment that there is a signal but it is too weak to provide a countable or stable Wireless connection the MIMO might help in a sense that the available Bandwidth (due to the MIMO) would larger and thus allow countable connection.
However, if the environment ?Kills? the signal MIMO is of a little value.
:sun:
As I posted above solving Distance problems with MIMO depends on the specific environment. In an environment that there is a signal but it is too weak to provide a countable or stable Wireless connection the MIMO might help in a sense that the available Bandwidth (due to the MIMO) would larger and thus allow countable connection.
However, if the environment ?Kills? the signal MIMO is of a little value.
:sun:
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