The Geek Out
Shelby GT350 Member
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I have a question, the cable guy just left after being here for 2 hours and my hubby's xbox still isn't getting the wifi he needs to stay signed in. Usually I would be happy about this, but he is being a whiny ***** and when he comes home tonight I don't want to have to tell him that the cable guy couldn't help us.
The cable guy suggested running a Ethernet cord from the router to the other end of the house to the xbox. I'm not crazy about drilling another hole in the floor. I was reading on a Wireless Access Point, idk if that would work, we must have concrete walls or some ****. What do y'all think?? I'd like to give him a option when he comes in from work. Please help!!!!
The cable guy suggested running a Ethernet cord from the router to the other end of the house to the xbox. I'm not crazy about drilling another hole in the floor. I was reading on a Wireless Access Point, idk if that would work, we must have concrete walls or some ****. What do y'all think?? I'd like to give him a option when he comes in from work. Please help!!!!
Mach 1 Member
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He did play the other night, but now he can't even sign in
Last edited by myponyandme; Dec 28, 2012 at 06:06 PM.
If it used to be a garage, more than likely has an exterior wall between it and the house, which means dense insulation which is killing your signal. Also the ISP provides equipment is weak for a signal anyway, you need an actual router that has wifi capability. That way you can get a better signal throughout the home as well as better protection since a dedicated router will have a firewall built in.
For a wireless router, look for one with external antennas as they do better. Also placement of your router makes a difference. Under a desk and right up against walls will deteriorate your signal. Usually placin on a desk or something works best.
For a wireless router, look for one with external antennas as they do better. Also placement of your router makes a difference. Under a desk and right up against walls will deteriorate your signal. Usually placin on a desk or something works best.
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If it used to be a garage, more than likely has an exterior wall between it and the house, which means dense insulation which is killing your signal. Also the ISP provides equipment is weak for a signal anyway, you need an actual router that has wifi capability. That way you can get a better signal throughout the home as well as better protection since a dedicated router will have a firewall built in.
For a wireless router, look for one with external antennas as they do better. Also placement of your router makes a difference. Under a desk and right up against walls will deteriorate your signal. Usually placin on a desk or something works best.
For a wireless router, look for one with external antennas as they do better. Also placement of your router makes a difference. Under a desk and right up against walls will deteriorate your signal. Usually placin on a desk or something works best.
You could also try relocating the router closer to the room. The farther the Xbox is from the router the worse signal it will get, not to mention the possible concrete walls.
But if the wall is the problem, then a stronger router will be needed. If that doesn't work, then Ethernet cable is the only option.
Also is the house on a slab, or is there attic access? I you didn't want to go the route of a new router, an you wanted to do a access point, (which is just a repeater of sorts going access to your network) you could go all nifty and get one of the POE smoke detector style ones and mount in that room. Poe means power over Ethernet, so you'd have a box at your cable modem that has a cable going from it to your modem (assuming it has multiple LAN ports) and out of the Poe enjector would be a power cord and Ethernet out. The Ethernet out you run to where your smoke detector unit is and it powers and does data off of one cable. Works pretty well, we use them for clients where they want good signal and not a access pony sitting on thier desk. I can get links later when I'm not on my phone
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You could also try relocating the router closer to the room. The farther the Xbox is from the router the worse signal it will get, not to mention the possible concrete walls.
But if the wall is the problem, then a stronger router will be needed. If that doesn't work, then Ethernet cable is the only option.
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If it used to be a garage, more than likely has an exterior wall between it and the house, which means dense insulation which is killing your signal. Also the ISP provides equipment is weak for a signal anyway, you need an actual router that has wifi capability. That way you can get a better signal throughout the home as well as better protection since a dedicated router will have a firewall built in.
For a wireless router, look for one with external antennas as they do better. Also placement of your router makes a difference. Under a desk and right up against walls will deteriorate your signal. Usually placin on a desk or something works best.
For a wireless router, look for one with external antennas as they do better. Also placement of your router makes a difference. Under a desk and right up against walls will deteriorate your signal. Usually placin on a desk or something works best.
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Also is the house on a slab, or is there attic access? I you didn't want to go the route of a new router, an you wanted to do a access point, (which is just a repeater of sorts going access to your network) you could go all nifty and get one of the POE smoke detector style ones and mount in that room. Poe means power over Ethernet, so you'd have a box at your cable modem that has a cable going from it to your modem (assuming it has multiple LAN ports) and out of the Poe enjector would be a power cord and Ethernet out. The Ethernet out you run to where your smoke detector unit is and it powers and does data off of one cable. Works pretty well, we use them for clients where they want good signal and not a access pony sitting on thier desk. I can get links later when I'm not on my phone
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We have a router thru TWC and he said the one he hooked up today was better than the one they hooked up Saturday, and it's the same, sometimes I have a bar or 2 then nothing. :/ I think we will talk to best buy or geek squad and see what other options we have.
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Sitting here doing some routine maintence on my systems. mainly my laptop. Cleaning off software, running ccleaner, spybot, mbam, and defraggler. All after i synced everything over to my server. Server will back everything up tonight in its image to the iosafe hard drive.
Shelby GT350 Member
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Sitting here doing some routine maintence on my systems. mainly my laptop. Cleaning off software, running ccleaner, spybot, mbam, and defraggler. All after i synced everything over to my server. Server will back everything up tonight in its image to the iosafe hard drive.
I cleaned up my laptop yesterday (or was it Thursday? Christmas got my week all messed up). I actually hadn't used my laptop in 3 days, so there wasn't much to clean.
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mainly file storage. I keep all my data there, as well as on my laptop. I use the microsoft sync utility every couple of days or so to push everything from my laptop over to the server shares. then the server does a full image backup of itself on a weekly basis to an external hard drive, one of these to be exact http://iosafe.com/products-solo-overview
Last edited by shurtual86; Dec 30, 2012 at 08:36 AM.
The things you do while on hold with a client. I just tried to shazam thier hold music. It didnt find it 
Shelby GT350 Member
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