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Thanks guys, i'll look into getting a wireless router but the first thing I wanna make sure, is that the device upstairs can talk to the device downstairs (with strong signal). h0ughy reckons that if the signal is weak, it will continually drop out, and windows will have an argy bargy with the other windows arguing over who is the boss.
I'll move the computers next to each other as the first step, to rule out a weak wireless connection as a culprit. I'll also put in a physical network crossover cable to test that too.
The house has wooden/particle board floors between upstairs and downstairs, but it's also a steel-framed house, so I also want to make sure that the frame isn't stuffing up the wireless.
Are the USB wireless LAN cards that bad? What is their effective range? They're only 10mbps cards afaik.
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