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Wireless Woes

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Spooner

Lifer
I'll never understand why I have a laptop and a desktop practically side by side and my laptop gets a "very good" signal from the router at the full 54Mbps while my desktop wireless gets a "very low" signal at 6Mbps

stupid router should have a better range than this as I'm two rooms away
 
Originally posted by: Spooner
I'll never understand why I have a laptop and a desktop practically side by side and my laptop gets a "very good" signal from the router at the full 54Mbps while my desktop wireless gets a "very low" signal at 6Mbps

stupid router should have a better range than this as I'm two rooms away
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<------------ Networking Forum is that way
 
Originally posted by: Aflac
Sure the problem's not on your desktop? As your laptop shows, your router is fine.
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well, now that i keep checking on the signal, the actual speed that it's connect at varies from 54 to 48 to 11 Mbps. it can't make up its mind

and my desktop has a Linksys wireless card getting a signal from a Linksys router so i hardly think it's hardware
 
Probably coz your desktop has a PCI wireless NIC with the antenna sticking out the back of it, tower sits on the ground thus getting weaker signal? If it's on a desk then 😕
 
Originally posted by: Spooner
Originally posted by: Aflac
Sure the problem's not on your desktop? As your laptop shows, your router is fine.
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well, now that i keep checking on the signal, the actual speed that it's connect at varies from 54 to 48 to 11 Mbps. it can't make up its mind

and my desktop has a Linksys wireless card getting a signal from a Linksys router so i hardly think it's hardware
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Linksys sells their own hi-Gain Antennas

or this has connectors to fit too

Hi-Gain 7dBi Omni-Directional Antenna
 
Originally posted by: Spooner
do those hardcore antenna things really work?
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I can vouch that they do. I bought the D-Link Hi-Gain antenna for a client who wanted his wife's computer (which was in the basement) to get on their wireless network.

The card would not see the wireless network without the antenna. The second I added it, it saw the network and connected. She has not had a connectivity problem since.

I was skeptical at first, but I am a believer now.
 
Why are you blaming this on your router? If your laptop is getting a good signal from the same location then the signal there must be strong. When you have a wireless router and a wireless NIC made by the same manufacturer I suppose they "ought to" work well together, but that seems to not be the case.
 
Originally posted by: SlitheryDee
Why are you blaming this on your router? If your laptop is getting a good signal from the same location then the signal there must be strong. When you have a wireless router and a wireless NIC made by the same manufacturer I suppose they "ought to" work well together, but that seems to not be the case.
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even the laptop has flaky, varying signal strength

i might try one of those antennae. do you put them on the router or your NIC?
 
Originally posted by: Spooner
Originally posted by: SlitheryDee
Why are you blaming this on your router? If your laptop is getting a good signal from the same location then the signal there must be strong. When you have a wireless router and a wireless NIC made by the same manufacturer I suppose they "ought to" work well together, but that seems to not be the case.
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even the laptop has flaky, varying signal strength

i might try one of those antennae. do you put them on the router or your NIC?
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I believe they are available for both.
 
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