wireless router/internet question
I'll apologize now if I make this too long. Hopefully it will at least be clear if not concise.
I want to add a wireless security camera system to my house. One of the systems I'm looking at is dlink; specifically, three dlink 942l cameras. Cost is one of the factors of course.
This type of arrangement requires a wireless router, of course, and I have a modem/router supplied by my IP that is (finally) working quite well with the exception that its signal does not appear to be quite as strong as my old Linksys. I make this claim because my iPhone loses the wireless signal soon after leaving the house and with my old router it kept the signal at least an additional 50-75 feet further.
The distance from the router to at least one of the proposed camera locations is about 50 feet and it is not line of sight; several intervening walls.
I have a separate connection inside the house for internet. (I don't understand the technical parts to this, I just know that when we were having intermittent connection problems the phone technician somehow split the signal and I now have separate connections for phone and internet. He also replaced the old modem (we'd been having connection problems since that modem had been installed) with the present modem/router, making my old Linksys router an unneeded paperweight. The result was that my internet now works quite well. I'm sure it was the old modem because all I had to do was unplug the modem from power for a couple of minutes, plug it back in, and it was good for another week or 10 days.
Is there any way I can connect my old Linksys router to my internet and use it as the link to the dlink cameras (or whatever system I happen to end up with)? Thanks for the replies.
I want to add a wireless security camera system to my house. One of the systems I'm looking at is dlink; specifically, three dlink 942l cameras. Cost is one of the factors of course.
This type of arrangement requires a wireless router, of course, and I have a modem/router supplied by my IP that is (finally) working quite well with the exception that its signal does not appear to be quite as strong as my old Linksys. I make this claim because my iPhone loses the wireless signal soon after leaving the house and with my old router it kept the signal at least an additional 50-75 feet further.
The distance from the router to at least one of the proposed camera locations is about 50 feet and it is not line of sight; several intervening walls.
I have a separate connection inside the house for internet. (I don't understand the technical parts to this, I just know that when we were having intermittent connection problems the phone technician somehow split the signal and I now have separate connections for phone and internet. He also replaced the old modem (we'd been having connection problems since that modem had been installed) with the present modem/router, making my old Linksys router an unneeded paperweight. The result was that my internet now works quite well. I'm sure it was the old modem because all I had to do was unplug the modem from power for a couple of minutes, plug it back in, and it was good for another week or 10 days.
Is there any way I can connect my old Linksys router to my internet and use it as the link to the dlink cameras (or whatever system I happen to end up with)? Thanks for the replies.
