Wireless drop off after only a couple of meters.

[jas72]

Ok time to explain.

I have potentially 200MB fibrenet connection at home.

If I hardwire cat 5e cable to my laptop I can get a constant 95Mb to my laptop (hardware is obviously 10/100 and not gigabyte.)

However my iphone 4s is capped at around 45MB ? I presume this is due to it running on wireless G? But can't find much info on that.

If I stand next to the router with my ipad retina I get 75Mb but not more if I move 2 meters away this drops to 50Mb and my couch 3 meters away is 45Mb.

I'm on channel 8 my neighbours are on channels 11 and 1 and my cable companies wifi router is on 2 but I don't use it since I can't manage it directly. No one else seems to be using the 5GHZ range but I find that that is even weaker than the 2.4 range.

My walls in my house are made with red concrete blocks (14cm thick) these seem to obliterate any wi-fi reaching the rest of my house even in my bedroom which is only separated from the router by 2 walls and around 5 meters I don't get a signal at all. I tried buying a range extender but find for it to work at all I have to plug it in the same room as the router.

People have talked about getting 65 foot range on these extenders I struggle to get decent range within 10 feet of the extender.

Apart from ripping my house apart to cable the whole place is there anything I can do to increase the range (even if it means a better router?) or 2nd Access point.

I am using home-plugs at the moment but I'm lucky if I get 10Mb through them so not really benefiting from my fibre net, but at least I get a signal in my bedroom

Any ideas or help.

Cheers,

John

 

[bledd]

You could try an AC router and hardwire in the rest of your kit, don't use powerline

Channel 6 should work better than 8.

 

[wellibob]

I've a similar situation in my home. Walls kill the wifi. Nothing special in the walls as neighbours ha e same but not the dead zones I have. I can pick up neighbouring wifi networks in half my house significantly better than my own. (only solution I eventually came up with was hard wire in 2 old wifi routers and set them up as wifi access points) moving my main router all over the property made little difference as did different bands, channels 5ghz and AC. Baffled me but only way was to make more wifi access points. Needless to say my house now is totally hardwired also. Bloody annoying.

 

[holdin09]

iPhone 4s is G only not N so that is the limit. As above channel 6 will be the best as ideally you want a gap of 5 between channels. 5Ghz does really bad through walls so what I would do is get some cheap second hand routers that are at least dual band and place them around the house. For the speed you should be getting best to hard wire but powerlines are okay if your wiring is good in the house.

 

[jas72]

Thanks for the replies guys will try channel 6 tonight.

I read somewhere that certain wireless phones can also affect the signal as they run on 2.4Ghz as well is that true? Anyone got any info.

I have a couple of places where I could place a router since I should have wireless N on my ipad and laptop does anyone have any idea what would be a good router to use as an access point (one that's set up and forget?)

Don't want to have too many issues with it.

Also if I have to run another cable should I go immediately to cat 6? or will 5e suffice.

Thanks for the help so far.