So I am looking into improving our home network. The main DSL router is placed in the hall and my room is just across it, but for the wireless signal to reach my room is it kind of weak and it disconnects frequently and to just buy a long cable and plug it seems like a big hassle and I know my mother will never leave me in peace with a long wire dragging all the way to my room and besides my door wouldn’t close

I was telling my brother to bring someone to replace the TV wiring to our rooms with UTP cables, just for a couple of rooms if that can be done but still he didn’t look into this

I went to Jarir and got one of those powerline adapters, what they basically do is utilize the powerline wires to transmit the data

I got Aztech adapters, never heard of them before, for 32.500 KD you get two adapters and two 1 meter long UTP cables which are kind of short and some documentations and a CD. Haven’t look into those yet. Anyway it is straight forward, just get the two adapters out of the box, plug them in any power sockets, connect your laptop to one and the other adapter connect the modem to it and there you go, easy as that, no drivers needed or anything

It says it supports upto 85Mbps, haven’t tested that yet, I need to drag something internally and test the speed. But I noticed that if you ping the router, the average response time is around 4ms which is acceptable I guess, normally it’s less then 1ms if you’re going the normal way using switches

How do they work, well just brainstorming here, but I think it is the same as the broadcasting concept, it doesn’t actually know where the other adapter is plugged, maybe an electrician will be more useful as to how the electricity is distributed, hmmmm, anyway so if they data received is meant to the device connected to the adapter then accept it, if not, then drop it. Don’t take my word, search it

I have alot of wireless modems laying around so I think I’ll just buy a couple more adapters to span our network more over the house instead of using an extender which gives me a headache. My bro had a wireless modem installed in his room, I told him to connect via cables and disable the wireless which you can do under your wireless configuration page, just as below

The other option, hide AP, won’t let your SSID be broadcasted, that is you have to manually insert your wireless network name into your laptop’s wireless configuration, for more security but there are softwares that detect wireless networks that don’t broadcast their SSID

Well that’s done, I believe my next move is to check my two lil bros’ PC, I think both are screwed. I am not sure if the antivirus is even running there! Anyway we’ll see about that laters