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[mousapelli]

Internet Woez already:

The signal just barely doesn't reach my room, as I mentioned. so I bought a range extender (this is kind of like a saga in itself, but suffice it to say that in the end i have the Netgear version and paid WAY more than I did for the router, which is RIDICULOUS.).

Today, my brother's computer suddenly said NO to the repeater, after three days of no problems. He was okay anyplace the repeater didn't reach, but couldn't get online in either of our rooms or the room right below me.

I reset and rebooted EVERYTHING, nothing helped. Finally, i was actually sitting downstairs on hold with the help people, and it just started working for no reason.

what is the DEAL?! Does anybody know enough about repeaters to explain this to me? I know it has to do with switching between devices, but the repeater and the router are broadcasting the same network, with the same SSID and everything.

The repeater is the biggest ripoff in the universe, if you wanted to know.

Comments

[prillalar]

The vagaries of networking! I always end up turning things off and on and then off and on but in a different order and then swearing until things work. And I'm the network admin for our office.

When I was setting up our home network, I had this thing where the Airport would work fine -- until I started up a BitTorrent client (any client!) on any of the computers. I think I had to resort to human sacrifice to solve that one.

[laylah.livejournal.com]

Dude! Does human sacrifice work consistently for that sort of thing? Because that would be fabulous.

[prillalar]

That was the only time I've tried it. Usually the hassle of cleaning up afterwards is greater than the hassle of fixing the network by more conventional means.

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

Why is Cobalt making those big eyes at me like that?

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

I would have sacrificed just about anything at one point. I have an ailing rat! take him!

the hell of the situation is that if the router were like 15 feet closer to me, i wouldn't even NEED the fscking extender. but my parent's computer is there, and there's no moving that bitch, and I do have a super long ethernet cord, but the computer needs to plug directly into the router. GRARG.

[prillalar]

I don't know your housing situation, but sometimes our wireless kicks out if someone else in the building turns theirs on or maybe uses their phone. I haven't quite figured it out. Is there anything that could be sending Invisible Waves of Doom?

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

well, we're in a house, and most of our neighbors are either like 100 years old or dead, so I don't think that's it. I mean, who even knows.

I think what I need to do is just admit that for what i paid for this extender, i should just go back to Best Buy and buy a router with a longer range. Do you happen to have any suggestions? I've got a netgear mr814 atm, and I really love it and will be sad to stop using it since it works like genius and cost me $30, but this seriously can't go on.

[sociofemme.livejournal.com]

Repeaters suck major ass. That is my sole (and very helpful) contribution. I had two of them to set up last summer, and it was usually better to just not put them up at all.

Turning them on and off helps sometimes. *vague shrug*