Howdy folks,
So, I got a new PC last week (Photon Envy with 780GTX), and I'm completely thrilled with it, except the issues I'm having with getting online.
I have an insane amount of WiFi enabled devices to compare against, and they all work absolutely fine. The PC however has nothing but "poor" signal strength, via 2.4ghz whatever I do.
Eventually I managed to get around this by switching to 5ghz and messing with Channels via inSSIDer, but 2.4ghz continues to have absolutely none of it.
The problem I'm now having is that I'm housesitting for someone for two weeks, and I have taken my PC so I have something to keep me occupied. These guys only have 2.4ghz, and surprise surprise, I'm having the exact same problem here too. I don't have any Ethernet cable to connect properly, but even RIGHT next to the router, it's still nothing but poor. Unusable, basically.
So with this mind. I have a couple of questions that I'm hoping some of you wise folks may be able to assist with:
Since I've now established that I get only a tenuous 2.4 signal in two different houses (which is not a problem for literally any other device) is there a chance that that the 'pickup' in my PC for this frequency is just plain broken? Can one frequency still work, while the other doesn't? Is there a way to definitively confirm that?
Is there something I'm missing that you folks may be able to suggest? Unfortunately since I cant connect to the internet via the PC I can't provide any screen dumps. All I can do is desperately beg for help via my crappy PS Vita browser.
I'm going to go completely nuts trapped out in the sticks for 2 weeks with no internet.
Yours desperately,
Neil
So, I got a new PC last week (Photon Envy with 780GTX), and I'm completely thrilled with it, except the issues I'm having with getting online.
I have an insane amount of WiFi enabled devices to compare against, and they all work absolutely fine. The PC however has nothing but "poor" signal strength, via 2.4ghz whatever I do.
Eventually I managed to get around this by switching to 5ghz and messing with Channels via inSSIDer, but 2.4ghz continues to have absolutely none of it.
The problem I'm now having is that I'm housesitting for someone for two weeks, and I have taken my PC so I have something to keep me occupied. These guys only have 2.4ghz, and surprise surprise, I'm having the exact same problem here too. I don't have any Ethernet cable to connect properly, but even RIGHT next to the router, it's still nothing but poor. Unusable, basically.
So with this mind. I have a couple of questions that I'm hoping some of you wise folks may be able to assist with:
Since I've now established that I get only a tenuous 2.4 signal in two different houses (which is not a problem for literally any other device) is there a chance that that the 'pickup' in my PC for this frequency is just plain broken? Can one frequency still work, while the other doesn't? Is there a way to definitively confirm that?
Is there something I'm missing that you folks may be able to suggest? Unfortunately since I cant connect to the internet via the PC I can't provide any screen dumps. All I can do is desperately beg for help via my crappy PS Vita browser.
I'm going to go completely nuts trapped out in the sticks for 2 weeks with no internet.
Yours desperately,
Neil