Increasing The Range Of The Wlan Connection - AVM FRITZ!Box 3270 Installation, Configuration And Operation

Increasing the Range of the WLAN Connection

9.4 Increasing the Range of the WLAN Connection
The range of a WLAN radio network is influenced by various
external circumstances. The following factors have an espe-
cially strong influence on the distance over which your
FRITZ!Box can establish a stable, high-throughput wireless
connection:
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If needed, you can extend the range of your WLAN radio net-
work with a WLAN repeater, for instance with the FRITZ!WLAN
Repeater N/G or FRITZ!WLAN Repeater 300E from AVM. A
WLAN repeater is a supplementary device that is not included
in the FRITZ!Box package.
Instead of using a WLAN repeater, you can set up a Wireless
Distribution System. For this you need, in addition to the
FRITZ!Box, another WLAN access point that is configured as a
WDS repeater (see
Using the FRITZ!WLAN Repeater
With the FRITZ!WLAN Repeater N/G from AVM you can extend
the range of your WLAN radio network quickly and easily, for
instance to overcome structural conditions that are character-
ized by thick materials and heavy shielding. The FRITZ!WLAN
Repeater N/G supports all common WLAN standards, is espe-
cially easy to install and can be operated at any 230-V power
outlet. For more information on the FRITZ!WLAN
Repeater N/G, see the web site at:
www.avm.de/en/Produkte/FRITZ_WLAN/FRITZ_WLAN_
Repeater_N_G
the WLAN device used
structural conditions
the number of devices operating near the access point in
the same frequency range.
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