WIFI range?
Posted: 31 Oct 2012, 03:57
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?
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?