Wifi only works in room with router!

Hi - I have an iPhone 4, the wifi works perfectly when in the same room as my router, but it drops out and will not reconnect to the wifi network as soon as I walk into another room - even if it is only 3 metres down the hall! How does one fix this?!

No fix on the Iphone side. I'm probably seeing that the walls in this room are very think, blocking the wireless signals or seriously attenuating them. Buying a repeater or a second router would be my option here.

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