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"http://compnetworking.about.com/cs/wirelessproducts/f/wifirange.htm"

foobah

(a) range can be extended by using a simple and ez to build dish to as much as 1km depending on the weather and the router ; trees are not good

(b) many routers are compatible with DD-WRT software
Install this instead of the OEM software and 200-500m line of site is easy to achieved with no dish

(c) crank up the power using DD-WRT and again max signal distance can go up quite a bit, also much better performance with thick walls and so on. Technically this is illegal and a few routers block it in the hardware. However if you live in the middle of nowhere, have a farm or live within thick walls than nobody will notice.

http://www.dd-wrt.com/site/index

(d) as a general rule routers which hide their aerials inside the box will not work as well as ones which have them on show. This ain't always so though.

(e) Apple have not implemented dhcp properly on mobile phones and HTC have made similar errors too. The error is building the phones to tech spec rather than long established industry practice. The result can be that some HTC & Apple phones will not work with some home/office routers . They are even less likely to work with corporate networks and some university systems.

Yes, always problems with slow connections with telefonica in Tenerife. My OH has helped the situation where we stay by using a foil covered piece of card behind the router. In fact he has done it here too and it extended the distance the signal will travel. He got the insructions off the net.

It does also depend where exactly your router is. and which way it points.