Heya lads,

I've moved, and the rent includes internet. Great. Its wireless, via a ''FRITZ!Box Fon WLAN 7170 annex A" router. But its not great. When I plug a UTP cable in, I get really good speeds, but wireless, in my corner of the building speeds are struggling to go over 150kB/s and it seems more erratic and notchy. I get between 1 and 3 little green bars at best. And that is after carefully positioning the antenna of the router and pointing my usb wireless receiver literally taped to a long stick and finetuned in aim..

What are some experiences with wireless internet here? The landlord doesn't want to lay a cable but I'm not sure enough if some 'extenders' or fancy expensive wireless pci cards really transform it from crap to 'as good as UTP'.

Can it work or should I threaten the landlord to get him to lay down a cable?

Threaten him. Best in the long run. If your threats are effective that is. How big is he?

HomePlug (or Power Line or whatever it's called).

Fine for gaming etc.

tried a cantenna yet?
also you could try placing repeaters around the place

I've got the same router, works perfectly here through tough walls and everything...
Out of 20MBit I get 19500 all the time. I've got a bi-quad antenna with a piece of quite expensive cable on it, it is directional but allows some 60° angle.
Google it, it's easy to build one!

greeetz

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