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Increase your Wireless Signal with a homemade WiFi Booster

admin — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 02:23:13 +0000

If you have a weak WiFi signal on your computer you only have a few options. First you could move your computer closer, but this isn’t always possible depending on the space in your home.

Secondly, you could go out and buy a Wireless Antenna such as the Link Depot WiFi Signal Antenna from Newegg – but a decent wifi booster costs anywhere from $15-150. This is generally not a bad option but doesn’t always solve the problem. In my experience these antennas don’t do a terrific job, they do help, but I wouldnt spend too much money on them. I have used the Link Depot antenna featured above and it is as good as any (even when compared to models twice its price). The other option is to pick up a cheap wireless signal booster from Ebay.

If your on a budget however, you can try making your own homemade wi-fi booster by using the template provided by freeantennas.com for the Ez-12 Parabolic Reflector. I first noticed this info on Walyou.com

I made one for my wireless router at home and i can confirm that it does work. The outcome will however depend on other external interference factors. For some people not even the best wi fi antenna will help their signal problem. If after trying all of the above suggestions you are still having problems there is one more thing you can try which is almost certainly going to fix your problem.

There is a product called Ethernet over power adapters. These allow you to emulate a physical network connection over your house mains power without having to get an electrician in to wire your house with ethernet cable. Ethernet-over-Power adapters arn’t cheap, but they are quick fix for difficult network connections. I wouldn’t buy no name brands for this type of device. I would play it safe and get something like the NETGEAR XE102G Powerline which has a great track record.

Well I hope this helps you fixing your wireless signal connection problems. If you still are having problems drop me a comment or send me an email via the contact form and I will see if I can help you out

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How to fix slow shared network file transfer on Windows Vista

admin — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 02:38:52 +0000

A lot of people have been disappointed with how slow Vista transfers files on a shared network. A few solutions have come out to fix this problem but unfortunately some people are still reporting issues. Anyway, I have listed some of the fixes below – hopefully you are one of the lucky ones

Tip #1 – Is it your software firewall? I dont suggest uninstalling this straight away but perhaps you could just experiment by disabling your Norton, McAfee, AVG or whatevr you use for 15 mins or so. You should also check that Windows Firewall isn’t running at the same time as your software firewall. If you have just purchased a new Dell with McAfee installed you may find this post by Ian Lee interesting.
Tip #2 – Turn off Remote Differential Compression. To do this:
1. Click on Start
2. Click on Programs
3. Select Programs and Features
4. On the left side pane select Turn Windows features on or off
5. Uncheck Remote Differential Compression from the list.

Tip #3 – Turn off Windows Meeting Space. You can also find the option to turn off this feature under Turn Windows features on or off. All you need to do is uncheck it.

Tip #4 – Disable Auto-Tuning. Some people have reported that by turning of this feature there network transfer rate has improved.
1. Click on Start
2. Click on Programs
3. Click on Accessories
4. Click on Command Prompt
5. Type netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled
6. Restart computer and cross your fingers
If this doesn’t work for you you can change these settings back by typing netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=normal in the Command Prompt.
Tip #5 – There are also a couple of Microsoft Updates for Windows Vista which may make an improvement. Here they are, Good Luck!
- An update is available that improves the performance and reliability of Windows Vista
- The copy process may stop responding when you try to copy files from a server on a network to a Windows Vista-based computer

If anybody has any other tips for improving slow shared network file transfer on Windows Vista computers then please let me know either by email, the contact form on this website or by posting a comment below.

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Access Denied when installing Shared Network Printer on Windows Vista

admin — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:19:28 +0000

This Access Denied error message appears to be affecting quite a few Vista computers trying to get access to a shared printer on a Windows XP computer. When this first happened to me, I fiddled around for ages before finding the solution in the Microsoft TechNet forum.

To install your Shared Printer on your Vista computer do the following:

Go to Control Panel
Double click on Printer
Click on Add Printer
Select Add a Local Printer
Click on Create a new port
Select Local Port from drop down list (this is the default setting … don’t change it)
Click Next
A box will appear asking you to create a port name. Type in \\computername\printername where “computername” is the name of the computer that has the printer physically installed, and “printername” is the sharing name you assigned to the printer. Eg. My computer name was Office, and the printer sharing name was hpprinter, so I typed \\Office\hpprinter
Press OK and follow prompts to select your printers driver from list.
Wait for install to complete and print a test page.

Hopefully you can now print to your shared printers from your nice shiny new Vista computer

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