My wireless router is just one room over yet I cannot get good signal strength from it. I took my laptop into the same room and I still could not get good signal strength. Do I have bad equipment or is there something else possibly going on?
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It could be an interference thing; does the router configuration utility permit you to change the channel?
if you can’t get a good signal in the same ROOM, there is definitely something going on. Either an equipment problem or settings issue. Some wireless routers let you set the broadcast power. What kind of router is it?
I will try to update with more details when I get home. It is a Linksys router but I don’t know which one.
Make sure the antennas on the router are screwed in tight.
Can you get ANY signal strength? That is can you connect to your router at all? If not, some laptops (including mine) have a hardware switch to enable/disable the built in wireless LAN adapter (on mine, a Toshiba satelite Pro, its on the left side of the laptop, near the front of the keyboard).
I wonder about this myself. I also have a Lynksys, and what usually happens is that the signal starts out fine, but quickly degrades to ‘fair’ or even ‘poor’. This can be frustrating when I’m working at home, because my employer’s network has a tendency to kick me out when the signal is so bad.
This happened to me once when a housemate bought a new cordless phone without my knowledge. I was literally within 8 feet of the router and signal would be ‘poor’ and drop completely every 10 seconds or so. It was completely unusable. I even bought a new router thinking the old one had crapped out. This happened even when the phone was not in use and in its cradle.
I changed the WIFI channel and everything is cool now.