By any chance is it one of those piece of dung pre-n things? Mine cycles
between very poor to excellent, even though it's 10 ft away..

Cliff Hartle wrote:
> Have you changed the default SSID in the router?
>
> You may be attached to a neighbor's D-link. I have seen this many
> times even though you have a stronger signal from the next room your
> computer insists on connecting to the weaker signal.
>
>
> <Shaynelle@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1166635127.978589.139010@f1g2000cwa.googlegro ups.com...
>> I am on bedrest due to pregnancy complications, so my husband
>> purchased me an inexpensive laptop so I could browse the net, play
>> games, email etc.
>>
>> For the first month or so the wireless connection was fine, but
>> lately it always is "low" or "very low" and often cuts out after
>> about 10 minutes of starting the computer up.
>>
>> We have a D-Link wireless router and the Lenovo laptop we have has an
>> Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG NIC.
>>
>> I am considering saving all my files and just doing Lenovo's restore
>> utility, but before I try that, does anyone have some suggestions I
>> should try first?
>>
>> The router is just in the next room over, so the issue isn't that the
>> laptop is trying to access the connection over a large distance.
>>
>> Thanks for any suggestions,
>>
>> Shaynelle