[Shop-talk] OT: Wireless router (again)?

[Chris Kantarjiev]

> Someone mentioned a repeater?  Something that just needed some power and 
> could otherwise sit wherever would be nice.  Its not like our house is 
> very big... 2300 ft^2, but its a sprawling ranch layout (great on the 
> heating bill... :-/) and the router is at one corner of the house.

You can set up another access point to act as a wireless repeater using 
something called WDS. It will join the specified SSID network and pass 
packets back and forth.

> Perhaps I'll try a different channel, just in case there's some 
> interference.  We do have a 2.4 Ghz and an older (900 MHz? 
> Something else) cordless phone...

The 2.4 phone has a high likelihood of causing you problems.