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Both my wife and I now have Aspire's, she got hers when her expensive HP failed. They both work OK all over our three story house. I do use inSSIDer to check signal strengths and sitting here one floor down from the router I am getting an 'RSSI' of -57. It also has the enormous benefit of showing channels in use by neighbours. If there is one with a similar signal strength on the same channel then you will have problems. If that is the case then change to another one choosing one of 1, 6 or 11.
Both my wife and I now have Aspire's, she got hers when her expensive HP failed. They both work OK all over our three story house. I do use inSSIDer to check signal strengths and sitting here one floor down from the router I am getting an 'RSSI' of -57. It also has the enormous benefit of showing channels in use by neighbours. If there is one with a similar signal strength on the same channel then you will have problems. If that is the case then change to another one choosing one of 1, 6 or 11.
Thanks John, just got inSSIDer, also changed router channel to 6 from 1. 6 also seems popular so I might move to 11.
Unfortunately I'm no wiser after running it really, I have a RSSI of 60 as you can see by the pic below, which has occasionally dropped to 45, but others have an RSSI of160 is there a way to get it higher, or is that to do with the broadband speed package.
The RSSI (Received Signal Strength) is nothing to do with the broadband speed but only the wireless signal strength. My wireless laptops are turned off at present so dont have a similar picture to hand. The best indicator is the graph, you want to be top of the graph and you dont want those with a similar strength to share channels as there is contention. The basic point is that if two transmitters fire off simultaneously then they will 'collide'. When that happens they will need to re-transmit after a delay, to reduce the problem repeating a random(ish) delay is introduced. Hence performance suffers. Looks like you need to got to 11 or 13. Google wireless router channel selection. If you still have problems then you do probably have a fault! I did have a Novatech laptop that was bad and they changed the card which solved the problem.
I have just found an interesting fact about Chan 13. As there were lots of neighbours with the wifi on, we live in a house where many are weekenders, there were many routers on 6. I there switched to 13 which worked fine on my 18 month old Acer Aspire. However, my wife's nearly new one refused to connect, it simply could not see the router. Changing to 11 solved it. I believe the use of 13 is not allowed in the US so maybe it is changing for all?
I'm writing this on a 3 year old Aspire 5920 after fighting to connect.,
Now, have you checked the Aspire's "Acer E net mangement", its the green icon like an aerial at the bottom. This caused a lot of our problems, especially after I had installed a Ralink wlan extender aerial. I created a profile there.
There seemed to be a conflict between connections and more often than not, the connection timed out., it seemed that the machine didn't know how to connect, I even unistalled the extra wlan card, but still no joy. I wonder if it a windows update that has caused this. Our laptop was fine 6 months ago.
I'm writing this on a 3 year old Aspire 5920 after fighting to connect.,
Now, have you checked the Aspire's "Acer E net mangement", its the green icon like an aerial at the bottom. This caused a lot of our problems, especially after I had installed a Ralink wlan extender aerial. I created a profile there.
There seemed to be a conflict between connections and more often than not, the connection timed out., it seemed that the machine didn't know how to connect, I even unistalled the extra wlan card, but still no joy. I wonder if it a windows update that has caused this. Our laptop was fine 6 months ago.
Peter
Sorry, been away for a few days, not sure if she has "E net management, but I'll have a look.
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