Home Network help - wireless adapters?!

[Steve2009]

Hi,

 

Hope someone out there can help!

 

I have recently moved back home and my parents are using a Wanadoo/Livebox router. I am currently using the supplied Inventel UR054g adaptor to connect my desktop computer to the internet. However, the signal is not great and am getting slow connection speeds due to a low/fair signal.

 

It is too difficult to use an ethernet cable to connect via as one is upstairs and the other is downstairs.

 

Would purchasing a wireless adaptor like the 'Belkin F5D8055ed Wireless N+ USB Adaptor' be any help to me?

 

I have heard N+ adaptors are sometimes not compatible with certain routers, does any one know whether this would work? Or is anyone else using an N+ adaptor, could you pass on your thoughts?

 

I am running Windows 7 Ulitmate 32-bit if that changes anything?!

 

Many Thanks

 

Steve

[round2it]

get a cable cut out the middle man

[laserblazer]

Can you move the router to a better position?

[Dos_Box]

I'd avoid Belkin and go for a company with a bit more of a reputation for networking if I were you. Also do a site survey. How much wireless kit is is your house\street? Do you have video senders, phones with wi-fi or blu-tooth or other domestic appliances that use wireless signals? There may be other ways to get a better simply by tweakign the router (if you have access to those settings). You could also consider a home plug network and use your house electrical circuit to hard wire a connection to your pc. There are many options available to you.

[tmcd35]

Have a look at the 'Homeplugs' ethernet over power solution. Good speed, easy to set up and no wireing.