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armbWell, a certain amount of fiddling around at random and the wireless access point works, for a rather limited range.
Sitting on the stairs with a laptop is fine, but signal strength in![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
wings_of_wax's room varies from poor to non-existent. And we want to reach another room at the opposite end of the house too, so there are limits to what can be done with moving the access point or a directional aerial on it (we could put a simple reflector on the card in Pam's room, but that won't work on the laptop card.
We did know radio reception in the house is poor, but had hoped that was mainly outside walls responsible. There is a reflective foil looking layer as part of the thermal insulation under the underfloor heating.
Sitting on the stairs with a laptop is fine, but signal strength in
wings_of_wax's room varies from poor to non-existent. And we want to reach another room at the opposite end of the house too, so there are limits to what can be done with moving the access point or a directional aerial on it (we could put a simple reflector on the card in Pam's room, but that won't work on the laptop card.We did know radio reception in the house is poor, but had hoped that was mainly outside walls responsible. There is a reflective foil looking layer as part of the thermal insulation under the underfloor heating.