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  0 0 Do you get your signal from a card that has an external antenna? Have you considered building/buying a cantenna? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantenna You could also at the same time consider swapping out one of your office's antennas with a directional pointed towards your apartment, but your IT staff would probably be annoyed with this. Black Beetles in Amber answered in Geek Week 10 months ago | Report 2 comments by fermata and Joan… 0 0 I looked at cantennas, but I didn't see how the cantenna was different than the Hawking HiGain Directional 12dBi Window Antenna, which is the one that didn't work. Are cantennas superior? fermata commented 10 months ago | Report 1 0 It's not better, just cheaper ('cuz it's DIY). You could take up Amateur Radio as a hobby and slowly but surely grok the science (&/or black art) of antennas. {Antennæ are for Entomologists.} The suggestion of a directional antenna upstream combined with your directional antenna on your end might do the trick. You could also reconfigure your interior design so your one little hot spot could become your desk away from desk —de KG8VO Joan commented 10 months ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question New comments are not being accepted at this time.

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  0 0 The best you can do is an external antenna, but your probably going to be dropping your connection left and right. You could try buying a cheap wireless router and putting it closer to your house, but i don't think your companies IT department will like it. Brandon Humphries answered in Geek Week 10 months ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question New comments are not being accepted at this time.

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  0 0 An antenna may or may not help. The bigger problem is interference. The 2.4ghz band that WiFi operates on is very crowded. Portable phones and microwaves can wreak havoc on the signal. Are you able to change the channel that the WiFi operates on? I've found that I often have to experiment using different channels to find the one with the least interference. Andrew Beck answered in Geek Week 10 months ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question New comments are not being accepted at this time.

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