Patient genius needed...

dpro · 05-04-2009, 07:35 AM

Hi. I'm trying to extend the WLAN in my friends' rambling old stone house. I bought a Hawking Extender and put it upstairs; it receives full connection and "excellent" signal but wouldn't connect to the web until I tweaked a few settings like giving it a static IP... Trouble is, despite excellent everything, the loading of pages varies from OK-ish to slooooowww, to let's-make-a-cup-of-tea-and-wait; going straight to the web via the router (BTOfficeHub) in the room housing the router is lightning fast. Should I poke around in the router settings and make it use OpenDNS, or is my issue nothing to do with DNS?? Any help much appreciated.
Thanks
dp

05-04-2009, 07:35 AM	#1
dpro Member Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 1	Patient genius needed... Hi. I'm trying to extend the WLAN in my friends' rambling old stone house. I bought a Hawking Extender and put it upstairs; it receives full connection and "excellent" signal but wouldn't connect to the web until I tweaked a few settings like giving it a static IP... Trouble is, despite excellent everything, the loading of pages varies from OK-ish to slooooowww, to let's-make-a-cup-of-tea-and-wait; going straight to the web via the router (BTOfficeHub) in the room housing the router is lightning fast. Should I poke around in the router settings and make it use OpenDNS, or is my issue nothing to do with DNS?? Any help much appreciated. Thanks dp

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