Wireless laptop issues

[13CentKiller]

I have a wireless WRT330N modem/router based down stairs (Image below)


I walk upstairs, and I have an excellent connection directly above the router. It connects at 54MB/s and everything is fine.

I walk down a halway about 7 meters in leanth, and into my bedroom, the signal drops to 1.0MB/s and basiclly stops working. It then claims there is no wireless network after a re-boot. I whip out the PSP, and that takes a reading claiming it has a signal strength of 84% and connects.

I walk back out into the lounge up-stairs, and it dosn't go back up to 54MB/s per second, the reading goes from Good to Excelent, but still no internet.

Whats goin' on?:huh:

Do I need to repair something, reinstall? Has anyone had this issue before.

Thanks gues:cool:

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[13CentKiller]

*Bump*

Anyone? Kinda urgent :(

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"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do."

[Seth Karlo]

You're the one who usually answer's the questions man!

I would say... what's your house made of? What is the range of the router? What operating system are you using?

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[13CentKiller]

I know I am!

I can get an excellent signal at 100 meters within line of sight.

Its a wooden house, I have Windows XP Pro with SP3, and the problem seems to have fixed itself.:huh:

Computers......:dry:

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"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do."

[Thor22]

If your PSP picks it up no bother, and the router looks pretty good, then i'd suspect that it is the wireless reciever in the laptop itself.

I played FL on a laptop for about the first 6 months I was here - bit of a nightmare at times, so I just ran a big ugly, bright yellow ethernet cable from my router to the laptop:P

EDIT: I see you actually said the problem has went away - my bad!

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[Zeb Harley]

My brother in law has a similar problem in his old house with brickwalls and wooden walls. He discovered that the plaster on the walls was put onto a wire mesh structure thus caging the house perfectly from electromagnetic waves. He doesn't even need to encode his WLan since noone can pick it up from the outside.

This problem can also happen if there is an Alterning Current on one of the walls. This happened to me once with a brick wall. The insulation of one of the electric cables had probably been drilled into and the cable had contact to one of the bricks. I measured 50 hertz waves all over that wall and it also prevented from having WLan in the room behind that wall.

If you have wooden walls, you might check any metallic structures in those walls for low AC.

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