Low Signal Strength

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I connected the Linksys WRT54GS a few days ago and the signal strength was
showing very good to excellent. The last day or two I see it is always
showing low now. What can cause this and/or what can you do to increase it?

Thanks,
Ed.
 

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Interference.

Is there a cordless telephone (operating at 5.4Ghz) near the router or
laptop? Maybe a neighbor's Wi-Fi operating at 5.4Ghz is nearby? Try
running Netstubler to see if there any Wi-Fi signals around.


"Ed." <ejs@none.net> wrote in message
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> I connected the Linksys WRT54GS a few days ago and the signal strength was
> showing very good to excellent. The last day or two I see it is always
> showing low now. What can cause this and/or what can you do to increase
it?
>
> Thanks,
> Ed.
>
>
>
 

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Try unplugging your router (or whatever you are using as your wireless
Access Point) from the 110 volt power source, wait at least a minute, and
then plug it back in. This has worked for me.

"Ed." <ejs@none.net> wrote in message
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> I connected the Linksys WRT54GS a few days ago and the signal strength was
> showing very good to excellent. The last day or two I see it is always
> showing low now. What can cause this and/or what can you do to increase
it?
>
> Thanks,
> Ed.
>
>
>
 
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OK, thank you for the reply and I will give that a try.

"Papa" <bikingis@my.fun> wrote in message
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> Try unplugging your router (or whatever you are using as your wireless
> Access Point) from the 110 volt power source, wait at least a minute, and
> then plug it back in. This has worked for me.
>
> "Ed." <ejs@none.net> wrote in message
> news:uFWYyQhYEHA.1264@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > I connected the Linksys WRT54GS a few days ago and the signal strength
was
> > showing very good to excellent. The last day or two I see it is always
> > showing low now. What can cause this and/or what can you do to increase
> it?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ed.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
 
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In spite of the signal strength showing as low, do you find a slowdown in
your network? I went through this with my Linksys WAP, signal strength
excellent, and then one day, under identical condition, it's low. I went
through all kinds of gyrations trying to find the cause when I realized that
my normal network activities seemed the same. I ignored the signal strength
indication and went on with life. Eventually the signal strength came back
to excellent.

It's just my theory, but I think the signal strength readings aren't always
accurate with this kind of equipment.


"Ed." <ejs@none.net> wrote in message
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> I connected the Linksys WRT54GS a few days ago and the signal strength was
> showing very good to excellent. The last day or two I see it is always
> showing low now. What can cause this and/or what can you do to increase
it?
 

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You are no doubt correct, but in my case the signal strength "meter" was
accurate, and when it said "Low", it really was low and I was unable to
connect to the internet. Soon afterwards it said "Disconnect".

By resetting my router (power down, wait a minute, power up), signal
strength immediately returned to "Excellent" and I was able to resume
surfing.

Why this behavior? I don't have a clue. Maybe someone else can explain it.

I don't think the answer is a low quality router because too many similar
complaints have been posted from users who have a wide variety of router
brands.
 

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"Papa" <bikingis@my.fun> wrote in message
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> You are no doubt correct, but in my case the signal strength "meter" was
> accurate, and when it said "Low", it really was low and I was unable to
> connect to the internet. Soon afterwards it said "Disconnect".
>
> By resetting my router (power down, wait a minute, power up), signal
> strength immediately returned to "Excellent" and I was able to resume
> surfing.
>
> Why this behavior? I don't have a clue. Maybe someone else can explain it.
>
> I don't think the answer is a low quality router because too many similar
> complaints have been posted from users who have a wide variety of router
> brands.
>
>

maybe there are a bunch of cheap routers out there?
 
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Thanks for the reply and yes, we do have 5.4Ghz phones in the house. That
may be it.
How do you run Netstubler for curiosity. I am not familiar with that and
would like to know and see what it does show?

"Ed" <crazie_eddie64@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Interference.
>
> Is there a cordless telephone (operating at 5.4Ghz) near the router or
> laptop? Maybe a neighbor's Wi-Fi operating at 5.4Ghz is nearby? Try
> running Netstubler to see if there any Wi-Fi signals around.
>
>
> "Ed." <ejs@none.net> wrote in message
> news:uFWYyQhYEHA.1264@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > I connected the Linksys WRT54GS a few days ago and the signal strength
was
> > showing very good to excellent. The last day or two I see it is always
> > showing low now. What can cause this and/or what can you do to increase
> it?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ed.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
 
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Not much to it. Load the software onto a laptop, run it, and Netstumbler
will let out a sound every time it finds a network. I've tried using it from
the car and it's amazing what you can pick up. I think we found over 90
networks, some of which one could actually surf from.

"Ed." <ejs@none.net> wrote in message
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> Thanks for the reply and yes, we do have 5.4Ghz phones in the house. That
> may be it.
> How do you run Netstubler for curiosity. I am not familiar with that and
> would like to know and see what it does show?
 
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Thanks for the reply. I did a search for Netstumbler on google and found and
downloaded it. I will run it later to check it out. I didn't realize it was
a program. I thought maybe it was some command you would use in Start, Run,
Cmd.

Thanks again

"Box134" <box134@wooky.invalid> wrote in message
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> Not much to it. Load the software onto a laptop, run it, and Netstumbler
> will let out a sound every time it finds a network. I've tried using it
from
> the car and it's amazing what you can pick up. I think we found over 90
> networks, some of which one could actually surf from.
>
> "Ed." <ejs@none.net> wrote in message
> news:Oy9WrXJZEHA.556@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > Thanks for the reply and yes, we do have 5.4Ghz phones in the house.
That
> > may be it.
> > How do you run Netstubler for curiosity. I am not familiar with that and
> > would like to know and see what it does show?
>
>
>