Effective MVP Wireless Range?

[matt91]

I would like to get a wireless MVP, but am curious about the effective range. I've seen others say that once they are in another room from their access point, they lose the connection or have other difficulties.

Are there good reports from 2 stories away, in garage, guest house, etc?

I would like to put mine 2 stories away from my AP. I get good signal stregth with a laptop here, so I would think that the MVP would be fine. [In fact, I use to have my Sage server connected wirelessly from here, and it always ran fine - no hiccups.]

thanks
Matt

[tmiranda]

Mine is about 25 feet from the AP and the connection has 3 bars. Video plays fine but the connection sometimes drops when there is no activity.

The effective range seems to be way less than what you would expect.

[matt91]

The lack of positive results is a little discouraging, but I guess there aren't tons of the wireless MVPs out there yet either.

Matt

[hemicuda]

FWIW, If the MVP uses a standard antenna connector you might try adding a high-gain antenna. I put them on my linksys hardware and it made a huge difference in range. I don't use a linksys pc card on the lappy (none have an ext ant port), but I can get connections to hotspots from over 200ft at 11mbps.

There are also sites on the net describing how to make a parabolic slip-over for rod-type antennas. Makes things fairly directional too.

YMMV

[matt91]

Good point...I hadn't thought of that. I assume that the MVP uses the standard (BNC?) type antenna connection?

Matt

[kminder]

Another important thing to try is different channels. I see a huge difference in coverage between the channel that my AP automatically selects and channel 1 which seems optimal for me.