recently moved from the us to montreal, canada. I’m currently renting a furnished apartment here for a few weeks and then will be moving to another furnished apartment. The apartment that i will be moving to has the highest speed internet possible for wifi in montreal so im not worried about later on. However, the current apartment that im in… the wifi seems to have a lot of problems.
It works during the day but after 1 hour or 2 maybe max, it would always not work for 15-45 minutes. The thing is when you look at the internet bar, it does showed connected to the internet and shows 4 or 5 bars. However, when you click on the activity received and sent, you can clearly see its very little getting sent compared to received. I asked the guy in charge of the building and he told me the other people in the building doesn’t have any problems with the wifi. The building is very small and has just a couple of apartment here. They told him they had no problem with the wifi internet. However, they are probably not using it 8 plus hours a day like me.
The thing is i need the internet to be reliable because i play online poker so disconnects are a huge problem for me. On october 1st i will move to the other apartment which i won’t have any problems. But from now until then, this is really frustrating me. It seems like when im on the laptop all day online, it would disconnect me a few times and then it would take between 10-40 minutes to get back on. I would connect, disconnect etc over and over. The thing is it does show CONNECTED to that internet.
Is there a way to fix this problem? Basically the internet in the small building is shared and even though i know if everyone is using internet a lot, it can be slow… but its not even slow. It works fast when it works but when it doesn’t work, it plainly doesn’t work. Shows connected but doesn’t work and many times it would direct me to the dlink router page where it ask me to type in my admin name and password. Of course i dont know what that is and i know i shouldn’t be typing anything into this page right since this is what the person in charge of my building does?
Does anyone know why im having these problems on my laptop? I know it isn’t my laptop wifi problem because i use an itouch as well and when the laptop wifi doesn’t work, neither does the itouch wifi. Basically it shows it is connected with 4 or 5 bars but the internet doesn’t work and many times direct me to the dlink router page where it tells me to check my settings. Of course i cannot do this because the router is in one of the apartments here where it shares the internet with everyone else. It would disconnect a few times during the afternoon, work for a bit and then at night disconnect another 3-4 times which take 15 minute before it works again.
Does anyone know what i can do about this? The thing is it shows connected to the internet the whole time. The internet does work majority of the day and shows connected but many times it just doesn’t work. And when i see the dlink router page, i dont know what i can do because the router is in the guys apartment which shares all the wifi.
Is my only option to get an internet mobile stick for the next 3 weeks if i want reliable internet? I need reliable internet as what im doing requires me to have almost no disconnects.
I have an asus u45jc-a1 laptop if that means anything.
ask the landlord to reboot his router and you reboot yours and your computer. probably not a fix but that is what i would try first and then see if there is still a problem. meet your landlord where the router is and make sure he actually resets - not all people are network savvy and sometimes they fabricate to hide their ignorance. you may even teach him the proper way so tenants in the future dont suffer internet withdrawal 
He did reboot the router. The internet was then good but only good for a day or so but now im having problems again. It seems to not work at least 1 time a day at the best. Yeterday and today i had it disconnected for over 1 hour a few times.
He told me other tenants has zero problems with the internet.
Does anyone know what i can do about it?
Can someone recommend me what i can do?
Can i buy a wireless stick or something like that? I need it for 2 weeks before i move to another apartment that has very fast and reliable internet.