Hello ! Any advice on how to increase wireless signal to a laptop ?

I have an HP computer with a built-in 802.11 b/g wireless adapter. I currently live in this big building, a small hotel and my room is on the other side of the office where the router is located. When I sit outside or on the other side of the hotel in the lobby by the window, signal is good, 36 or 54 Mbps, but there is no signal in the room. There's about 2 cartboard walls in between, I suppose. Is there any way I can use some antenna or something to boost my signals so it works in the room as well ???


Much obliged, thanks for your responsesHello ! Any advice on how to increase wireless signal to a laptop ?
The best and most cost-effective solution I see is to invest in a Wireless N (802.11n) PC card adapter, which you would plug into your laptop's PC card slot.


Wireless-N (with MIMO) greatly increases signal sensitivity, signal strength, %26amp; distance, and with less signal dropping - much much better than what you could achieve by an antenna on the old Wireless B/G.


Wireless-N and Pre-N cards can take that Wireless-G router's signal and boost it to full capacity.


If ever there were a Wireless-N router on the other end, it could reach 240 Mbps or more!!





To use the Wireless-N card in your laptop, you'll need to disable your laptop's built-in Wireless-G/B in the control panel or the BIOS.


Wireless-N products are expensive, but you might be happy with a used ';Pre-N'; card that you could pick up for cheap . Try checking craigslist.com.


Pre-N's may not be upgradable to regular Wireless-N but may still make you happy. I use a Netgear Pre-N WGM511 which works great. They are priced around $50 at this time.





Netgear, Linksys, or Belkin are some recommended brands for a Pre-N or Wireless-N card.





If you do choose a Wireless-N over Pre-N, be sure to look for the ';second draft'; ones. The ';first draft'; of Wireless-N still had bugs that many people were dissatisfied with.