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I have a job lined up for Tuesday; a woman has been complaining of dropped connections, poor wifi signal, and the like. My first thought that it was no big deal, and that I could just extend coverage by adding another access point on the ground floor of her two story home so that the signal would reach all of the house. Her house is right on the border between Iowa and Illinois in a fairly rural area.
However, she also added that often times cell phones won't work in her home, and that all of the computers in the house will sometimes stop working if there's a sudden drop in temperature, a sudden change in barometric pressure (such as a storm rolling in), and so on. This had me puzzled, and then she mentioned that significant portions of the house (either in the walls or the frame itself) are lined with lead; her house is about 150 years old.
I thought of two routes to take, concerning the networking side of it:
1. Run a line from the router (in the basement) to her bedroom (ground floor) to connect her laptop directly to the router.
2. Set up another access point and just hope that it can reach everywhere.
Her main priority is reliability. She doesn't need a fast connection or anything, just something that works the first time, every time. Any help in accomplishing that would be greatly appreciated.
I have a job lined up for Tuesday; a woman has been complaining of dropped connections, poor wifi signal, and the like. My first thought that it was no big deal, and that I could just extend coverage by adding another access point on the ground floor of her two story home so that the signal would reach all of the house. Her house is right on the border between Iowa and Illinois in a fairly rural area.
However, she also added that often times cell phones won't work in her home, and that all of the computers in the house will sometimes stop working if there's a sudden drop in temperature, a sudden change in barometric pressure (such as a storm rolling in), and so on. This had me puzzled, and then she mentioned that significant portions of the house (either in the walls or the frame itself) are lined with lead; her house is about 150 years old.
I thought of two routes to take, concerning the networking side of it:
1. Run a line from the router (in the basement) to her bedroom (ground floor) to connect her laptop directly to the router.
2. Set up another access point and just hope that it can reach everywhere.
Her main priority is reliability. She doesn't need a fast connection or anything, just something that works the first time, every time. Any help in accomplishing that would be greatly appreciated.
) and 2.4ghz has longer range.