We had been using a pair of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002ZH71S/104-3121872-0387116?v=glance&n=172282">these suckers</a> to give my poor mother her internet addiction, and apparently they had been working alright (I think we had to replace them once though?) until about a couple of weeks ago, and she has been getting intermittent internet, mostly from the router on this side of the house. Her room is about 50 or 60 feet away, so sometime the signal drops altogether, since the receiving end of those (the one that picks up the signal from the one plugged into the router, which is from netgear, but hasn't given us any trouble yet) doesn't seem to see a signal when it's ten feet away.

Other people on the intarwebz seem to be having the same trouble, and I never really liked the idea of these bulky things that are stealing a wall slot from my computing set up (since they are too delicate to be plugged into a surge protector-.-) I've been looking into other hardware, to get my poor mother the internet she has become addicted to.

What do you guys use for access points etc? Anything you could reccomend before she drives me nuts?