Improve the range of my wrt320N router?

Hellu,
How can I improve the range of the WRT320N router that is operating on 5Ghz?
The router is fixed and will not be moved.
Can I adjust the range capacity through firmware? or add antenna's?, bandwidth... etc...

As your Router is an Dual Band Router, and It can work on 2.4GHz Wireless Network or on 5GHz network.However different wireless channels has different significance to improve the wireless performance of your Router. Once you set the different channels on your Wireless Router, then you can set the security mode to WPA persoanl, as if you have Windows XP OS installed on your Computer, As most of the XP Computer dosent work on your WPA2 Security, and Disable the Wireless MAC filter on your Router and check if you are getting connected to your Wireless Network using the 5GHz Network.Follow the settings bellow and i think this might improve the signal strength on your Wireless Computer.
Open an Internet Explorer browser page on a computer hard wired to the router...In the address bar type - 192.168.1.1...Leave the Username blank & in Password use admin in lower case...
For Wireless Settings, please do the following : -
Click on the Wireless tab
- Here select manual configuration...And select 5GHz Channel...... Wireless Network mode should be mixed...
- Set the Radio Band to Wide-40MHz and change the Wide channel to 9 and Standard Channel to 11-2.462GHz...
SSID Broadcast should be Enable and Click on Save Settings...
For Wireless Security : -
Click on the Sub tab under Wireless > Wireless Security...
Change the Wireless security mode to WPA, For Encryption, select TKIP...For Passphrase input your desired WPA Key. For example , MySecretKey , This will serve as your network key whenever you connect to your wireless network. Do NOT give this key to anyone.
NOTE : Passphrase should be more that 8 characters...
Click on Advanced Wireless Settings
Change the Beacon Interval to 50 >>Change the Fragmentation Threshold to 2200 Change the RTS Threshold to 2200 >>Click on "Save Settings"...
Now see if you can locate your Wireless Network and attempt to connect...
Message Edited by binky on 08-16-2009 01:51 PM

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