Re: Why is my signal less that 50% when I'm in same room as router but 100% in the garden

fluffychick <fluffychick.2wnamu@no-mx.wirelessforums.org> hath wroth:
>I can't figure it out. My router is in the living room away from
>cordless phones and microwaves etc. When I'm sat 2 metres away from it
>on the sofa I have a signal of 47%. When I go in the back garden, and
>the signal has to pass through the hall, dining room, kitchen and
>bathroom, it's 95 or even 100%.
>
>What could be wrong?

What model router?

Duz it have internal antennas as in some Pre-N devices. If so, did
you mount it vertically, like in the advertising literature? If so,
place the router flat on the table so that the antenna works in all
directions.

I assume you're using a laptop. Any particular model? Any particular
wireless card?

Are you sure you're measuring the signal strength of your own wireless
router? If you left the SSID at "Linksys", "default", "belkin", or
the default SSID of your unspecified model wireless router, you may be
connecting to someone else wireless router.

What are you using to measure signal level? If Windoze, you might
want to try using Netstumbler for testing.
<http://www.netstumbler.com/downloads/>
If your stuck with Vista, see:
<http://www.techidiots.net/project-pages/vistumbler/view>

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