Wireless AP point & Homeplug AV's

[Karde]

Hey all,

Hoping to get some answers to a couple of quick questions about my current wireless setup that have been bugging me for a while now. Love this site and hoping you'll be able to help me with my problems.

I currently run a wireless N network from a Linksys WAG160N router that unfortunatly has to sit right next to the master phone socket in the house to get any DSL. I have been connecting to this at the very limits of its range using a Linksys WUSB300N wireless adapter.

This setup is ok, but due to the extreme long range and various walls/windows my signal quality is pretty poor and bad weather can really affect if I get internet or not.

I recently invested in some Homeplug AV's (the Linksys PLK300 kit), but unfortunately I lose signal between these if they are plugged in, 1 near the router and the other next to my desktop.

However, I have found a socket closer to my desktop which does get signal through the Homeplugs, so what I have currently done is run the internet through the homeplugs to this point, from the homeplug to an old Linksys WAG300N that I had lying around and used this as a wireless AP to re-broadcast the signal for my desktop to recieve.

So, my 1st question is, if I bought another homeplug kit could I run a 2nd homeplug network from this 'middle' point over to my desktop. Doing away with the need for the WAG300N set in AP mode? In effect making my desktop have a wired connection to my router (abit through 2 homeplug AV networks and losing loads of quality and speed, but I have a bad internet DSL line anyway so I don't get good internet anyway).

My 2nd question is more of a troubleshooting thing. If I connect to my WAG300N it can see the internet in its AP mode re-broadcasting the signal from the WAG160N. However it seems to have a reasonably regular 'lag spike'. It will load up pages and download files at a resonable speed for 20-30 seconds and then have around 10 seconds where it almost seems to lose internet, before starting to work fine again for another 20-30 seconds. Do you have any idea what could cause this and how it could be fixed?


Thanks in advance,

Karde

 

[thiggins]

1) Sure, you can have multiple nodes in a powerline network. Note that they will share the available bandwidth.

2) The wireless "lag" could be any # of things, nearby networks, microwave oven, 2.4GHz cordless phone or one or both of the ends of the wireless bridge doing a periodic network search or link rate adjust.

 

[Karde]

Hey,

thanks for the quick response. Typically soon after I wrote this my internet went weird, service provider side problems though, so not something I have to try and figure out myself

Sorry to be annoying, but I just wanted to be certain before I went out and bought some more kit;

I can definately have a homeplug AV node next to my DSL router leading to a room in a house and another Homeplug AV node. I then have a wire coming from this node into another that is right next to it transfering the internet from 1 homeplug network to a 2nd. I then have a 4th Homeplug AV node over near my desktop which gives me wired internet?

So nodes 1 and 2 are connected. Node 2 has an external wire leading to node 3 and then nodes 3 and 4 are connected.

Cheers again,

Karde