3 bars - 5 bars always changing?

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  1. Posts : 331
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
       #1

    3 bars - 5 bars always changing?


    One second I have 3 bars, than 5, then 4, then 3 and my MPS changes so much too, any ideas why? Wile typing this I saw my bars go from 3 to 4 to 5 to 4 back to 5.
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  2. Posts : 5,642
    Windows 10 Pro (x64)
       #2

    It changes because it is wireless. It will never be steady since so much more chance the singal will hit something in the air.
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  3. Posts : 331
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
    Thread Starter
       #3

    logicearth said:
    It changes because it is wireless. It will never be steady since so much more chance the singal will hit something in the air.
    It seemes to be a lot more steady on other computers and in the past. Ive never had it change so rapidly and so much in such a short time.
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  4. Posts : 94
    Windows 7 Professional 32-bit///Vista Home Premium 32-bit
       #4

    Have you updated the Wifi driver. Helpled me with same issue recently.

    I have a strong N wireless setup but I was getting signal strength fluctuations on one of my laptops, as severe as from 5 bars to 1 bar. Now I get a solid 5 bars nearly all the time.

    Maybe this would help if you have not tried so yet.
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  5. Posts : 331
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    Thread Starter
       #5

    Thanks for the suggestion, but I already have the newest driver.
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  6. Posts : 8,870
    Windows 7 Ult, Windows 8.1 Pro,
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    If the channel is in use by your neighbors then the signal strength will change accordingly.

    Even if you are using a channel close to one of your neighbors it will have an effect on signal strength and download speeds because the channels overlap each other by about 4-5 channels and there is only so much bandwidth available. It sometimes pays to look for a channel that is at least 5 channels away from any of your neighbors.

    Use this to check for which channels are in use in your area.

    http://www.xirrus.com/library/wifitools.php
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  7. whs
    Posts : 26,210
    Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8
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    Just to make sure, I assume you did a password protect on the router so that other people cannot hitchhike on it.
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  8. Posts : 2,009
    Windows 7 Ultimate x86
       #8

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    -DG
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  9. Posts : 28
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
       #9

    I get that sometimes - it doesn't fluctuate as much as yours, it's more day to day, whereas my nephew's system, using exactly the same wireless adapter has a solid five bar connection pretty much all the time.
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  10. Posts : 331
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
    Thread Starter
       #10

    There are no other Wifi networks around me, so that's not the problem.
    Last edited by ZenixNet; 21 Jan 2011 at 14:48.
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