[SSilence]

Good day to everybody.
I'm experiencing a major problem on my home LAN, about the wireless part. I did recently install a NAS, which I intended to be my movie archive. Through the Ethernet connection, I can stream two good quality videos at once, but when I try a wireless stream glitches and even long pauses are the result. Furthermore, when transferring big files via wireless from a laptop to the NAS I get 22 mbps of transmitted data by DUmeter and max 805 KB/s of speed by Vista. My problem seems to be weak signal: the router is one or two floors below the laptops, depending on which one I'm using. Since I can't move the router to another floor because of the network layout, what suggestions would you give me? Buy another router and build a radio bridge, get a better antenna, set more buffer to Media player classic (where's the option?), other options? Thank you for your hints & time (...now tranferring @ 356 KB/s & upping @ 10,26 mbps... )

[Judas]

make model of the router your using?

a considerable number of wireless routers i've fiddled with have decent and reliable wired network connections.. course some cheaper wired routers have very poor performance soon as multiple machines are hooked up and doing multiple things at the same time.... (such as 3 or more)

However with wireless, if your doing alot of high bandwidth related tasks, i've found the cheaper or even midrange wireless routers tend to suffer significantly, alot of the netgear/linksys/smc/belkin/dlink/etc all exhibit the same results with inconsistant speeds and or "lag"

the only solution for these problems, so long as general interferrance isn't your issue, was to buy the more powerful routers designed for "extreme" speeds.

I've had the wireless N routers, the powerful and NOT cheap ones, So far my most favorite one is the D-Link DIR-655. It's capable of handling standard dvd streaming and generally quite impressive sustained long range speeds. Several hundred feet range while maintaining stable signals. On top of it, provided that you have a wireless N adapter on the computer, i was able to stream a HD-DVD across a wired connection to the router and then to a wireless computer about 150 feet away through 2 walls.

The lower Model dlink i had on hand could no manage this even though it was wireless N as well.... it just couldn't keep up with the demands.

I also like the fact that the dlink dir-655 also has USB connection for highspeed internet, so if you don't have a internet connection that uses standard ethernet, your laughing

[SSilence]

I have a normal router, the Netgear DG834G v3, latest firmware. The wired connections are good, there's no doubt, I tested them and they work fine. The problem is the wireless, because my house has an L shaped plant and the laptops are placed on its ends: wherever I put the router, on the other side of the building the reception is bad (Vista says signal is good but Vistumbler says 4%, and 20% for the laptop on the ground floor). Since my printers, the tower PC and the NAS are placed downstairs, the router must stay there too, otherwise I should connect all computers on wireless (argh). I would like to increase the range of my router, but all the network is g standard based, so switching to n wouldn't properly be economic. I think that getting a good wired antenna (about 9 dB) could be a good chance to set a better position for it and increase the coverage enough for the purpose. What do you say?