Wireless network

What happens when you fold the dipole on the downstairs pc into the horizontal position?

Does signal strength improve?

Lester could do the same for the router.

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I've had horrible luck with all the D-Link products I've tried to date. Netgear as well, though not as bad. I finally settled on LinkSys, and haven't had a problem since.

Is there electrical wiring running through the floor? Are there any fluorescent lights in the house, especially near your computers? If so, both would have a detrimental effect (the lights more so) on wireless range.

You may want to try a better antenna on the desktop system. I've seen units that can sit on top of the computer, and use a skinny cable to connect to the Wireless card. Hawking Technologies makes some good ones.

Happy tweaking.

Yes, he could/should.

Its an interesting point though the author made regarding the laptop performance v's the PCI card.

My experience is the same. My faithful old HP 2200 laptop with inbuilt antenna picks up stuff the standard PCI card (stock antenna) couldn't hope to find.

The much maligned laptop antenna actually works pretty damn good overall.

Of course, once the PCI card had a directional antenna fitted it was a no contest - huge difference.

Cheers all

Rob

I put both bouter & network adapter anthenas to horizontal position. I seem to see bit more "Low signal" than "Very low signal" messages, but that's about it.

Could this be malfunctioning network adapter? Would it be worth trying to exchange it for a new one?

Thank you,

Lester

Hi Lester,

Its more likely to be caused by the PCI antenna.

From my experiences these are not great.

The fact that the laptop works OK means interference is probably ruled out, so that points to the antenna or the card.

If its not a huge job, I'd first try moving the PC to the same room as the router to see if things improve. Should be 100% signal.

If not 100% then its possible the PCI card is faulty.

This type of problem seems to appear in news groups fairly frequently.

I put up some infomation on the poor wifi performance of PCI antennas recently. Worth a read.

Cheers

Rob