My wireless is bizarre

devonpie

Explain this, I challenge you........

I live in a 3 storey house, my wireless router is in the lounge on the middle floor. I mainly work in the office, which is downstairs on the bottom floor. My wireless works well in here, but it's a bit cold. Sometimes I take my laptop up to the lounge. However in the last couple of weeks I have been unable to access the internet in this room, despite being just metres from the router. Go back downstairs away from the router and it works just fine.

What the hell is going on?!?

stevo2434

Move the router downstairs, and see if that works? Sometimes if I'm RIGHT beside mine, the computer doesn't pick it up, but it'll pick the router across the road up. They can be a little bonkers...

devonpie

stevo2434 wrote: »

Move the router downstairs, and see if that works? Sometimes if I'm RIGHT beside mine, the computer doesn't pick it up, but it'll pick the router across the road up. They can be a little bonkers...

I forgot to mention that it does connect to the router when upstairs and signal strength is said to be excellent. However the internet just seems to indefinitely be loading and never gets anywhere.

Bizarre I tells ya!

arathorn

devonpie wrote: »

Explain this, I challenge you........

I live in a 3 storey house, my wireless router is in the lounge on the middle floor. I mainly work in the office, which is downstairs on the bottom floor. My wireless works well in here, but it's a bit cold. Sometimes I take my laptop up to the lounge. However in the last couple of weeks I have been unable to access the internet in this room, despite being just metres from the router. Go back downstairs away from the router and it works just fine.

What the hell is going on?!?

Signals from the wireless aerial radiate downwards like an opened umbrella. So being directly near the aerial isnt always good.

espresso

arathorn wrote: »

Signals from the wireless aerial radiate downwards like an opened umbrella. So being directly near the aerial isnt always good.

That is utter rubbish! You obviously know nothing about propagation.

:rolleyes:

exup

devonpie wrote: »

I forgot to mention that it does connect to the router when upstairs and signal strength is said to be excellent. However the internet just seems to indefinitely be loading and never gets anywhere.

Bizarre I tells ya!

in the above case - you may have a decent connection to your router - but the router's connection to the internet itself may be acting up..
is it a router modem combined? or a seperate modem?

as to being in the same room as the router and having signal problems? I wonder if something is in the room could be causing interference to the laptop network card

devonpie

exup wrote: »

in the above case - you may have a decent connection to your router - but the router's connection to the internet itself may be acting up..
is it a router modem combined? or a seperate modem?

as to being in the same room as the router and having signal problems? I wonder if something is in the room could be causing interference to the laptop network card

The router connects to the internet fine when I move elsewhere.

I have a digisender in the room which sends the TV picture around the house, but this has never intefered with the internet before (it used to work fine in that room until a couple of weeks ago) Whilst I type this however I am recalling changing the channel that the digisender transmitted on recently and this may be it. Will go home and check it out.