The good news is many houses in the DR are well-built with concrete walls, floors and ceilings.
The bad news is such construction makes for lousy home wifi networks. I know in our house even one concrete wall/floor kills over 50-60% of the wifi signal...even if you're fairly close. Upstairs on the opposite side of the house? Forget it.
I found a simply brilliant solution: a Powerline connection where the house electrical wiring acts like an ethernet cable. You can plug an adapter into any plug close to your router and plug another wireless router into another electrical outlet for a new hotspot.
And the BEST solution I found, by far, is the Linksys PLWK400 kit.
It consists of two parts:
The schematic looks like this:
Set up is a snap, CD included. This worked first time right out of the box for us and now we have a "5-bar" signal upstairs on the opposite of the house.
The best part: you can plug it-and other PLW400's-into any electrical outlet in your house to take solid wifi coverage with you.
Cost: about $95.
If you've wondered how to easily increase the range of your wifi network, this is an excellent, cost-effective solution.
The bad news is such construction makes for lousy home wifi networks. I know in our house even one concrete wall/floor kills over 50-60% of the wifi signal...even if you're fairly close. Upstairs on the opposite side of the house? Forget it.
I found a simply brilliant solution: a Powerline connection where the house electrical wiring acts like an ethernet cable. You can plug an adapter into any plug close to your router and plug another wireless router into another electrical outlet for a new hotspot.
And the BEST solution I found, by far, is the Linksys PLWK400 kit.
It consists of two parts:
- a PLE400 adapter you plug into a wall socket and run an ethernet cable from your main router to it:
- a PLW400 remote wifi hotspot that all you do, literally, is plug into a wall socket where you want the new signal:
The schematic looks like this:
Set up is a snap, CD included. This worked first time right out of the box for us and now we have a "5-bar" signal upstairs on the opposite of the house.
The best part: you can plug it-and other PLW400's-into any electrical outlet in your house to take solid wifi coverage with you.
Cost: about $95.
If you've wondered how to easily increase the range of your wifi network, this is an excellent, cost-effective solution.