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I have a dell inspiron laptop with a Truemobile 1150 internal Mini-PCI
card. I'm not really comfortable with playing with hardware, but, I
have opened my laptop and re-seated the antenna connector to the card
when it came off, once, in the distant past.
Lately, I have really weak connections with my laptop. Tonight, I'm
sitting with my laptop, DIRECTLY in front of my WAP. I know it's not
the WAP, because my husband's laptop's connection is "just fine".
Sitting in front of the WAP and looking at my linux wireless tool
display, my Link quality wanders from ~22% to ~29%, my signal strength
sits fairly steady at ~60%, and my "noise level" (is that
interference?) ~45%. I get an 11 mbs connection, but, if I move out of
this room it drops to 6 mbps and if I go downstairs to the first
floor, it becomes 2 mbs (as well as simply dropping in and out
frequently).
Right now, my WAP is about a foot away from me, and my husband's
laptop has excellent reception from anywhere in the house (except a
single dead spot in the kitchen).
My question is, what can I do to troubleshoot what's "wrong" with
this, whether I need a new card, whether there's something wrong with
my antenna or the connector between the card and the antenna, or
"what"?
Gwen
I have a dell inspiron laptop with a Truemobile 1150 internal Mini-PCI
card. I'm not really comfortable with playing with hardware, but, I
have opened my laptop and re-seated the antenna connector to the card
when it came off, once, in the distant past.
Lately, I have really weak connections with my laptop. Tonight, I'm
sitting with my laptop, DIRECTLY in front of my WAP. I know it's not
the WAP, because my husband's laptop's connection is "just fine".
Sitting in front of the WAP and looking at my linux wireless tool
display, my Link quality wanders from ~22% to ~29%, my signal strength
sits fairly steady at ~60%, and my "noise level" (is that
interference?) ~45%. I get an 11 mbs connection, but, if I move out of
this room it drops to 6 mbps and if I go downstairs to the first
floor, it becomes 2 mbs (as well as simply dropping in and out
frequently).
Right now, my WAP is about a foot away from me, and my husband's
laptop has excellent reception from anywhere in the house (except a
single dead spot in the kitchen).
My question is, what can I do to troubleshoot what's "wrong" with
this, whether I need a new card, whether there's something wrong with
my antenna or the connector between the card and the antenna, or
"what"?
Gwen
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