how do i boost my wifi connection?

Question

i have a 256 internet connetion but all i got is a 56 mbps connection... is it my modem or do i need a network adapter/ boosster to boost my connection even up to 100 mbps???

Answer 1

The other guy brought up a good point. You are looking at numbers, but not units. It is unlikely that you have a 256Megabit connection to your house. Considering I have an 8Megabit connection and it costs me $50/month. You must be talking about a 256Kilobit connection. You are getting a 54Megabit wireless connection. It seems to me that you are getting a faster connection internally than externally, so you have enough bandwidth for internet. Now, if you wanted to host a LAN party, then a faster internal network would benefit you.

Right now, wireless (up to 300Megabit) is still slower than a wired connection (up to 1Gigabit) in practice. While on paper, you can get higher data rates depending on what technology you are using. There are may wireless standards 802.11b (11Mbps) 802.11g (54Mbps), 802.11n (300Mbps). Since you are getting 54Mbps, it sounds like you have an 802.11g wireless router in your house. You would need to upgrade to an 802.11n router and 802.11n network adapter to get faster speeds than 54Mbps.

The reason why I said on paper because wireless data rates are spec'ed in ideal lab environment conditions. In reality, you divide the value in half and that is the average data rate you would get in ideal conditions in a house. For a 54Mbps, actual data transfer rates would be around 27-35Mbps. Just because you connect at 54Mbps, doesn't mean you will be transfering at that rate. Rates fluctuate.

Answer 2

Strategic positioning - Say you want to cover a floor with WiFi. There’s no point having your wireless access point in the corner of the room because the area that it can then distribute a signal to is much reduced. Instead, plan out where you want to cover and work out where the best place is to station your router. If you have a nice big open, flat office space then I would recommend setting up the router in the middle of the floor. This way the omni-directional antenna (an type of antenna that radiates the signal) can distribute more evenly over a greater area. In a duplex situation, placing the router on a ceiling in the middle of the building is a good way to radiate the signal further and stronger.
Mount the router on the wall - My WiFi coverage was at it’s worst when I had my router sitting at the back of my desk. If you want to boost the signal, a cheap and easy way to do so is to simply wall-mount the thing. This will increase the distance between it and all the possible interference around your computer.
Buy an antenna - There are a multitude of booster antennas on the market at very reasonable prices. The idea is that you plug them into your router then direct the signal in a certain direction, in my case, up through the floor to where I needed more coverage. Try using a high gain (gain is the measure of how well the signal is focussed) directional antenna to increase the range and strength of a network in the direction pointed.
Add extra access points - One of the ways that really helped boost my WiFi signal was by adding an extra access point in the upper floor of the building. I chose the Airport Express from Apple, but then I am a bit of an Apple geek … so what else could I do? The Airport Express also allows you to hook up to a Hi-Fi and stream songs to it from iTunes, as well as being able to hook up to a USB printer.
Try a repeater - If you don’t want to spend on an extra access point, then try a repeater. What a repeater does is receive the WiFi signal, then repeat it, hence the name. But it means that the repeater must be inside the range of the WiFi network, otherwise it won’t receive a signal in the first place. Linksys, Netgear and Belkin all make repeaters, and they’re typically quite affordable. The added extra is that they do not require an extra cabling as they receive the signal wirelessly, instead of via an Ethernet cable.
Add a powerline extender - Netgear now have a range of powerline extenders that send a signal via a powerline, instead of over an Ethernet cable. Plug one into your router and another into a power socket in a poorly covered area, set it up and away you go. Just be sure that you are all on the same circuit, otherwise it will not work.

Answer 3

You have a 256 what connection? My guess is that it's 256kbps, far slower than your 54Mbps 802.11g connection. You won't see any Internet speed increases until you increase the speed of your broadband connection. My cable connection, for example, generally runs about 750 kbps and my 802.11g wireless connection is 54Mbps. Obviously, the slowest part of my connection to the Internet is my cable connection. Even if I was using an 802.11b connection, at 11Mbps, that would still be faster than my Internet connection; and yours, for that matter.

Answer 4

if you're Internet connection is 256 Kbps then your 56 Mbps wireless connection is obviously more than enough. your desktop or laptop should already have a 10/100 NIC card installed. you don' t need to purchase any new hardware...

Answer 5

try turning off you pc yet not the wifi reason even although your logged off from the pc that doesn't recommend all the applications you clicked are pressure closed for instance in case you spread out Google chrome and go out it out and log out it continues to be operating which incorporates the different belongings you've opened and it does take in the wifi so turn it off and turn it decrease back on and also you may also turn of your wifi modem for kind of a minute and turn it decrease back on so it receives a clean restart it worked for me when I had my Linksys yet now I have Verizon fios so i do not might want to be stricken about it anymore besides the indisputable fact that it may artwork if not fix the antennas pull it out a lil extra to really be in course of the ps3 with out shifting your ps3 or if their is a few thing blockading the modem then bypass it out of ways

Answer 6

wel the 56mbps is the speed of your wireless.. its more to do with how close you are to the access point. the next speed up is is 108mpbs. the 100mbps is if your using a network cable to connect the router right to the pc.
if you need to incrase your signal stregth you would need to get a access point that will help.

Answer 7

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