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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.
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.
It changes because it is wireless. It will never be steady since so much more chance the singal will hit something in the air.
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.
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
Just to make sure, I assume you did a password protect on the router so that other people cannot hitchhike on it.
If you need a little more "power" Add some directional characteristic with a home made Yagi Antenna in a Pringles can As funny as it sounds...those things really work !
Pringles Cantenna WiFi Antenna | Do-It-Yourself Wireless Antennas Update
Or even this "Booster" made from a Kitchen utensil
-DG
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.
There are no other Wifi networks around me, so that's not the problem.
Last edited by ZenixNet; 21 Jan 2011 at 14:48.