How do you boost the signal from a Local Area Network?

Answer 1

A signal on a network can get a boost with a Repeater or a Router. They are spaced at a calculated amount of feet and when the signal reaches them it boost up the strength of the signal to the next Reaper or Router or to the ending address. Hope that helps, The PC Doctor.

Answer 2

This depends on what you mean by a "boost." Are you talking about a wired or wireless network? If the former, then you would need to have a network switch, router, or other such device into which the cable is connecting before reaching the maximum cable length of 100 meters (about 328 feet) and then another cable continuing the run to its destination. For most homes and small businesses, this maximum cable run length is not a problem. However, in a corporate environment, it is not uncommon to run fiber optic lines between departments, buildings, etc. Fiber optic cables can endure much longer runs (some can run up to several miles) without any problems.

In the case of a wireless network, you can get what is called a wireless range extender. This is a device that picks up on the wireless signal that you already have in your environment and then sends out a new copy of that signal so that your network can reach places that it would not otherwise be able to find with the router being where it is.

The best place to install a range extender is where the signal begins to fade but is not yet degraded that it makes connections between it and the router difficult. Generally, I try to put the extender where it still receives three out of five bars of signal.

Depending on the type of extender, you can often daisy chain them so that if you need to reach a part of your home or office building that cannot be serviced by the router, you can have one extender access the router and then another extender interface with the first and so forth. The most extenders I have seen work together in such a setup has been four. The one thing to remember about this, though, is that each extender adds a bit of lag, so for practical reasons, the fewer extenders you have, the better your performance will be.

I'm not sure if this will address your question, so if you were asking something else or if you have other related questions about this or networking, feel free to drop me a line.