very low signal strength..

• rpgragnarok

  8 Apr 08, 07:18

  heya, i had a problem with my friend's laptop connecting to my router..

  she had no problem connecting yesterday, but today, when her laptop tries to look for connection, it can't find any..

  then we try moving the laptop right next to the router, it can find the connection but the signal strength is very low, saying it has no signal..

  i had no problem connecting to the router myself.. anyone can help?

• manyu882

  8 Apr 08, 08:29

  check the laptop's signal str

   

  go to device manager> open the properties of your wireless adapter card>advance tab

   

  make sure that transmit power and power management is to the max.

   

  check your routers's signal strength

   

  go to your router's config page and make sure that the high gain antenna broadcast in a

  sphere radius instead of one direction braodcast ( one dir broadcast has its advantage but

  wont help much here). then check that the router is operating at 100% wattage.

   

   *edit: changed "dome" to "sphere"

• rpgragnarok

  8 Apr 08, 10:24

  changed wireless card's setting le, still no connection

  unable to find the high gain antenna broadcast in a sphere radius setting in the router's config leh..btw im using linksys router

• dibilo

  8 Apr 08, 10:43

  no signal aka not connected. double check and make sure the lappy is connected to the correct SSID and the password entered is correct.

• rpgragnarok

  8 Apr 08, 10:49

  Originally posted by dibilo:

  no signal aka not connected. double check and make sure the lappy is connected to the correct SSID and the password entered is correct.

  
  nono, its connected, juz that the signal is very low, i'm putting her laptop next to the router now and the signal is very low now...im posting this msg from her com now.. appearently, it seems that there is problem with the dns server cause when i opened her "connectivity doctor"(its a pre-installed toshiba program) it checks the connection and says there's something wrong with the dns server which i dunno wad is it
• Shotgun

  8 Apr 08, 22:53

  IF your own laptop is getting good signal, and hers is getting crappy one, it could be that...

   

  the laptop's antennae connectors could be loose or detached.  Need "surgery" to reattach.  Im not kidding.

• rpgragnarok

  8 Apr 08, 23:32

  she's bringing her laptop to the service centre tml, hopefully everything will be fixed =D

  thankyou guys who tried to help out haha