Way to improve wireless signal in room using repeater?

I live in a five bedroom student house and annoyingly have the room with poorest internet strength (in rarely exceeds "Poor/Fair" on the quality indicator) and I was wondering what is the best way to improve the quality of the signal in my room? I have looked at wireless repeaters but am I right in thinking they require a separate modem (We don't have any modems in our house- we get internet through Virgin Media and old Telewest)?

I live in a five bedroom student house and annoyingly have the room with poorest internet strength (in rarely exceeds "Poor/Fair" on the quality indicator) and I was wondering what is the best way to improve the quality of the signal in my room? I have looked at wireless repeaters but am I right in thinking they require a separate modem (We don't have any modems in our house- we get internet through Virgin Media and old Telewest)?

Comic_Capers

a repeater take a CBLE signal and converts it to a wireless signal.. therefore you would still be running cable somewhere to improve quality. but it would improve. however i believe you would be considered on a seperate network from the other users in your home (if im right, if not then forget me)

another option is the following:

what you need some tin foil or a small square of tin ideally with a bit of a curve to it

scissors & if you use the tin square some tin snips

a cardboard center from a TP roll

from there ill let the folliwng walk you through how to extend your range.

back in the day i had the same problem as you i was getting low-medium and frequent disconnects.. i did the above and now i recieve high or highest alot of the time and im in the 2nd farthest corner of my house from the router!!

Don't know, is your antenna detatchable?JigglyWiggly_

I would highly suggest this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833122376&cm_re=range_extender-_-33-122-376-_-Product

It's very easy to setup and is a range extender and 4-port bridge. So, you could put it in another room more central, or put it in your room and it would give you boosted signal and 4 ports to connect to directly. I have used these many times and they are super easy to setup and use.

I would highly suggest this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833122376&cm_re=range_extender-_-33-122-376-_-Product

It's very easy to setup and is a range extender and 4-port bridge. So, you could put it in another room more central, or put it in your room and it would give you boosted signal and 4 ports to connect to directly. I have used these many times and they are super easy to setup and use.

tempest91

Looks like a good idea but they cost about £65 in the UK and I highly doubt my housemates will want to pay £13.20 each for something like this (I know they're all incredibly stingy- it took some nagging to get them to all pay for their share of the TV license!)

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I would highly suggest this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833122376&cm_re=range_extender-_-33-122-376-_-Product

It's very easy to setup and is a range extender and 4-port bridge. So, you could put it in another room more central, or put it in your room and it would give you boosted signal and 4 ports to connect to directly. I have used these many times and they are super easy to setup and use.

Comic_Capers

Looks like a good idea but they cost about £65 in the UK and I highly doubt my housemates will want to pay £13.20 each for something like this (I know they're all incredibly stingy- it took some nagging to get them to all pay for their share of the TV license!)

I'm not sure about shipping, but buy.com has one for $39.99. Not sure if you can ship to UK from there though.

I live in a five bedroom student house and annoyingly have the room with poorest internet strength (in rarely exceeds "Poor/Fair" on the quality indicator) and I was wondering what is the best way to improve the quality of the signal in my room? I have looked at wireless repeaters but am I right in thinking they require a separate modem (We don't have any modems in our house- we get internet through Virgin Media and old Telewest)?

Comic_Capers

Would this cheaper option suffice?

http://www.edimax.com/en/produce_detail.php?pd_id=18&pl1_id=1&pl2_id=5