replacement for BT 2-wire 1250

I wonder if I could trouble you for some help. The BT 1250 2-wire home network has worked well for me for a few years now until I recently moved to a much larger home in the country.

The new home has solid walls and the distance from the router to the two pc's that I wish to be connected is about 30m. This seems to be too far for the BT1250.

Please can someone recommend an alternative as it seems that I am going to have to purchase new wireless equipment to cope with the larger house and the increased range.

Many thanks

Philip

the wi-fi standards limit the output power so unless you have good evidence to the contrary I would not assume that any 802.11 device will do better than any other.

Thanks very much for your reply. The BT router used to function well in a flat. It appears to have lost power though and I can not check whether it is functioning correctly. I suspect it is not. If all wifi routers have the same power I wonder what the solution is. Are there boosters available to repeat or boost the signal. Cabling is not an option sadly.

My own experience is that some wireless access points and routers are noticeably worse than others - particularly in signal strength - all down to the antenna design I guess.

Measuring the signal level in a totally non-scientific way, using the signal level reported by the WLAN card in the laptop, I've seen variances of up to 10dB depending on the wireless basestation in use (basestation placed in the same place, laptop in the same place).

So if the max is considered 0dB and the user has equipment now that is performing at -6dB then upon replacing it with one of the good performers they'll see an apparent 6dB rise in signal and hopefully that should translate into wider coverage.