WIFI range?

[Ancan]

Is anyone having issues with the WiFi-range on the B3 WiFi? I haven't had any issues, until now, when I have almost completed building our guesthouse, which is ca 20m from our main building, and wanted to stream music there while i finished everything up.

Connected to the B3 from the guesthouse, my computer has between zero and 1 bar signal strength, and often drops it. I didn't think anything was odd with this, since is some distance and walls and stuff in between. But then I dug up and old Belkin Pre-N router from a junk-box in the garage, to see if it could be configured as a repeater. It turned out this particular router could not handle WRD, but due to laziness I kept it plugged in.

When I later checked the WiFi from the guesthouse, I was surprised to the the Belkin router on *max* strength, while the B3 still was pending between zero and close-to-zero. This is two devices placed less than a meter from each other, with the same obstacles and same distance to the computer, yet the Belkin completely crushes the B3 in signal strength.

I've never has any issues before, because I've not had any reason to drag my computer so far from the house while accessing the network, but seeing the Belkin signal strength made be scratch my head.

Does the WiFi on the B3 really suck this much, or do I have a defective unit? Can it be the antennas that are bad? Is it possible to boost the signal strength by some software-tweaks?

[Binkem]

Hi,

I've been having some range problems. Then I bought two high gain antennae for the B3. This increased the range to about 200 m. Perhaps you should try this.

Martijn

[Ancan]

Hi,

I've been having some range problems. Then I bought two high gain antennae for the B3. This increased the range to about 200 m. Perhaps you should try this.

Martijn

Any particular model? A local shop have the TP-Link TL-ANT2408CL, but when you read the comments on Amazon it doesn't seem to do much for range (http://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-Link-TL-ANT2 ... B002VYP5QW).

[Binkem]

I've got TP-link antennae. I don't remember the type (it's not written on them). After installing I noticed a distinct range increase being able to use the WLAN of my smartphone about 200 m away. This may have some connection to the large amount of Wifi routers in my area where the high-gain antennae reduce interference from other networks? I guess you can only try for yourself, but I cannot make any guarantees.

Martijn