passive boosters, 802.11 g v. n

Would anyone care to comment/recommend on a wireless home router
for one laptop computer.

The configuration is:

The children's room is under the garage, with a concrete ceiling
(the garage floor) above it.

The room has an ADSL (telescum), and a children's desktop.

The lounge/kitchen is above the garage, and there
is a brand new laptop in it, with a 802.11n device.

The intention is to put a 802.11 router next to the
ADSL modem, in order to have a wireless connection
for the laptop.

There are no other computers to be linked.

Mrs. does not want any wires anywhere in the lounge, so rewiring
is out of question.

- Will 'n' wireless work through a concrete slab.

- Will 'g' work through a concrete slab?

- If both will work, would the 'n' work any better than the 'g'?

- BTW, what are good 'g' and 'n' routers, in your experience/opinion?

- Is 'g' fast enough for all practical purposes, according
to your experience/opinion (streaming audio, youtube rubbish and alike)?

- Is there a passive 'booster' i.e. a directional antenna
that can be added to a wireless router?

- Will it help to get the signal through the concrete slab?

Some time ago someone was using a wok net as a parabolic reflector,
but I have forgotten where I saw it.

All comments/hints welcome.

Cheers!

 

Also maybe

Almost certainly

802.11g will give you a real world throughput of close to 20Mb/s with a
decent signal. Is your broadband faster than that?

maybe - it'll depend a lot on the thickness of the slab and how much
steel is in it.

http://www.usbwifi.orconhosting.net.nz/

 

That helped! Thanks a lot!

 

Reality is try it out and see. Look for one with multiple antennas, either
internal or replaceable external ones which can be swapped for ones with
higher gain.

I'm using a WL 600 G all in one

 

Hm, interesting! I have not known they were making these! Thanks!

I know. But forward looking has become a luxury.
Otherwise, I would have proposed recabling of the whole house,
and resolve all household networking issues "forever";-).

 

I would disagree with that. G only gives a 54meg rate when in the same
room, which delivers about 18-20. When you have a wall in the way the
speed still shows the link at 54 or 36, but the thruput will plummet to
5-10 on a good day.

Multiple antennas, and gear that supports mimo helps a hell of a lot in
non line of sight conditions, N has that so is a great step up from G
for stability of the connection IME, and the speed will become a non
issue thruout most of a normal small NZ house.

I would get a N accesspoint and try it in various locations downstairs
to see how it goes upstairs. Dont get an all in one router since that
makes moving things around a pain.