Improving signal strength of Netgear WNDR4300?

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Hello - I just recently purchased a Netgear WNDR4300 router. It works a lot better than my old router, however I just wanted to get some ideas on improving the signal strength.

I live in an apartment with quite a few wireless networks around. Unfortunately, the signal in my bedroom isn't that great. It's about 60 feet from the router with 2 walls in between. I've already changed to channel 1 since it was being used less and that helped a bit with the signal but I'm wondering if anybody here might have some other tweaks I could make to boost the signal?

Any advice is greatly appreciated!
 
There is little you can really do most equipment transmits at the maximum legal power as it is. That router is suppose to have pretty good coverage from what most people say. Your best bet may be a direction bridge on the PC side. Something like engenius or ubiquiti bridges designed to be used outdoors. At least the ones that are physically smaller. You would hook these to your ethernet port and point the bridge at the router. In theory at least all the power would be concentrated in one direction and you also would get less interference from other directions.

Unfortunately there are no guarantees. Some wall will eat all the signal you can put into them. Even a metallic additive in some paint blocks a lot of signal.

If all else fails you try powerline ethernet and put a AP in your room if you need wireless.