unnamednewbie13
Moderator
+2,054|7040|PNW

Wired.
De_Jappe
Triarii
+432|6796|Belgium

yeah cable > wireless with everything.

Network
Keyboard
Mouse
Hanging yourself
...
Jenspm
penis
+1,716|7001|St. Andrews / Oslo

Getting an N router won't give you better signal to the PS3, as I believe it only supports g-signals. I would reccomend getting a repeater.
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aimless
Member
+166|6393|Texas
Me and my dad spent a weekend hardwiring our house with ethernet cables. We ended up running about 150ft of cable through and up walls. The end result? Beautiful. Each in-the-wall cable connected to a wall port which were color coded (not exactly sure why) and ran to the switch we had our network on.
FloppY_
­
+1,010|6554|Denmark aka Automotive Hell
LAN = Win

WLAN = Fail
­ Your thoughts, insights, and musings on this matter intrigue me
Bell
Frosties > Cornflakes
+362|6818|UK

SamTheMan:D wrote:

Mine works fine
Same here, amazingly
i g
Banned
+876|6132|GA

i fucking hate it with a fucking passion omfgggggggggggggggggggggggg
Mitch92uK
aka [DBS]Mitch92uK
+192|6504|United Kingdom

Bell wrote:

SamTheMan:D wrote:

Mine works fine
Same here, amazingly
me too
SealXo
Member
+309|6804
it eats my ipods battery
_j5689_
Dreads & Bergers
+364|6985|Riva, MD

FloppY_ wrote:

LAN = Win

WLAN = Fail
While that is true, some people simply don't have the option of using wired connections.

His house is almost a century old so the walls are made of signal blocking (and hazardous) materials.
Mint Sauce
Frighteningly average
+780|6555|eng
Wireless sucks serious cock. Wired is more reliable, and from what I learn, faster. I have a wire going out of my games room, running along the side of the house down in to my Dad's computer, where the router is. But then again, I wouldn't be able to find a wireless range big enough, considering it has to go through at least 5 walls and quite alot of air.
Spend the money to get wired and you won't look back.
#rekt
jsnipy
...
+3,277|6791|...

find a bunch of cheap routers convert them and make a hotspot.
FEOS
Bellicose Yankee Air Pirate
+1,182|6679|'Murka

If you want to keep the same WAP, you may want to look into two things:

1. Higher-gain antennas
2. Range booster

Your comment about Verizon is interesting. I've got Verizon FiOS and only have one router, which is for the IP network. They have a conversion box that translates the signal from the fiber to whatever their STB takes and puts it directly into the coax in my house. No additional router required, no wireless for the TV required, either.
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein

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TopHat01
Limitless
+117|6173|CA
Running cables isn't that hard...simply hit your local RadioShack, or a computer store, buy a long coil of cable, which isn't to expensive, and then attach to your ceiling and hallways. Otherwise, you could try running it under your carpet (if you have it), or simply next to the wall.

Option B is to move the router.  C is to fork over the money and buy a high-end wireless card for your PC.
Scorpion0x17
can detect anyone's visible post count...
+691|7034|Cambridge (UK)
Cover all surfaces between yourself and the router in tin foil to reflect the radio-waves - thereby effectively guiding them between your wireless NIC and your router...
The_Sniper_NM
Official EVGA Fanboy
+94|6382|SC | USA |
We spent $$$ on a router, no problems here. Our laptop (which stays in our living room) gets 3/4 bars. The signal travels from my room, down the stairs and through a wall. My brother gets 2/4 bars because the signal travels from my room, down the hall, and through his door. Never lags out of BF2, and browsing doesn't shit on him randomly.
Sambuccashake
Member
+126|6879|Sweden

HurricaИe wrote:

I'd use powerline networking except the electrical wiring in this house is probably older than electricity itself
Win!

What kind of stuff do you have? (router, reciever)
killer21
Because f*ck you that's why.
+400|6859|Reisterstown, MD

Of course wireless is not as reliable as a wired connection.  That's common sense.  However, if you take heed to where your wireless router is, what types of interference can hinder it, and/or the distance from the router to a pc, ps3, wii, etc., you can make it run effectively.  Maybe you could get an AP(access point) if you aren't able to get great range with your router.

Last edited by killer21 (2008-07-15 04:30:10)

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