In the last couple of months the wireless range at my house has decreased...I think it is a combination of additional interferences, my M400 having a weaker adapter than my M200 and replacing an old 17" LCD with a 20" wide screen is physically blocking the signal from my router...
In either case places that you used to get signal at the house are now "dark"-sigh.
At first glance it looked like i had a couple of options:
Having just read about some recent innovations specifically 802.1N and MIMO -and being a sucker for new technology i decide to get both a MIMO Router and Adapter.
Historically being a Netgear customer i ordered a matching adapter router MIMO set; specifically the WPN111 and a WNR834B, RANGEMAX NEXT 270mbps WLESS ROUTER. Rushing down to Umart i find they only have the WPN111 in stock - no problem with the claimed 10X range increase it should do the trick for my bedroom.
Plugging it in i can now get signal in my bedroom - yeah! Just barely -boo! Clearly no 10X increase here more like 5% - which could be a result from the USB extension cord. Since it is the weekend and too windy to go fishing i decided to try the old "put the USB adapter in a soup strainer trick".
Interestingly this didn't help very much - and the wife was not impressed with the Wok in the bedroom<sigh>. Still not beaten i tried putting the whole router (a WGT624) into the WOK with the antenna at the focal point. I don't know if it was simply moving Router or the WOK but this netted some big signal increases!
At this point i must admit i am little addicted- and my XBox still could use more signal!
I am still waiting for the WNR834 but when it arrives i am thinking i will turn my WGT624 into an AP and add a directional antenna pointed to the XBOX-and putting the Xbox Adapter in a parabolic antenna (ie a Wok).
Note the WGT624 doesn't normally accept an external antennae so i will need to perform a little surgery and use a U.fl to SMA pigtail