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I picked up a wireless router for a friend and brought it home to test before I set it up at his place.I set it up at my place and unplugged and disconnected my own wireless router.I used the setup CD to configure it to my laptop
while connected to the new wireless router with my Ethernet connection.I have a cable modem and I followed Netgear's prompts as far as the connection and booting process they recommend.
I have a few month old HP laptop with a b/g wireless card,not n.
My friend has the exact same laptop as well.
I initially connected to the interenet wirelessly by removing the ethernet cable and connecting to the wireless router.Everything OK,so far so good.
Then I take the laptop downstairs in the house where I usually use it (wirelessly) and have trouble connecting to the internet.Signal strength reads 'low'.I try running the repair on it thru windows and I keep coming back with the 'low' signal.I take it back to the room where the wireless router is and the signal is 'excellent'.Internet works OK.Go back downstairs and lose the signal again.Try letting windows repair it and still have'low' signal.I shut down the computer,re-boot and get the same.I go upstairs and connect my first router and go back downstairs and everything is fine.Run a pingtest and find I have a 5% packet loss,which is the typical test result I get on my old wireless router.
So today,I hook up the new Netgear router again.I hook up via ethernet cable and run a Pingtest.I get 0% packet loss.Then I hook up to the wireless,about 5 feet from the router and run Pingtest and get a 0% packet loss.I then go in the next room,about 20 feet away run Pingtest and the results are all over the place...some tests come back 0% packet loss,some tests 30% packet loss and everything in between.Finally I lose connectivity altogether.
I repeat the process and get the same results.
Meanwhile the 6 year old D-link router(b/g only) works fine anywhere in the house,although with a consistent 5% packet loss.
The wireless-n routers are supposed to have superior signal strength even with b/g card devices.
What should I do next?
while connected to the new wireless router with my Ethernet connection.I have a cable modem and I followed Netgear's prompts as far as the connection and booting process they recommend.
I have a few month old HP laptop with a b/g wireless card,not n.
My friend has the exact same laptop as well.
I initially connected to the interenet wirelessly by removing the ethernet cable and connecting to the wireless router.Everything OK,so far so good.
Then I take the laptop downstairs in the house where I usually use it (wirelessly) and have trouble connecting to the internet.Signal strength reads 'low'.I try running the repair on it thru windows and I keep coming back with the 'low' signal.I take it back to the room where the wireless router is and the signal is 'excellent'.Internet works OK.Go back downstairs and lose the signal again.Try letting windows repair it and still have'low' signal.I shut down the computer,re-boot and get the same.I go upstairs and connect my first router and go back downstairs and everything is fine.Run a pingtest and find I have a 5% packet loss,which is the typical test result I get on my old wireless router.
So today,I hook up the new Netgear router again.I hook up via ethernet cable and run a Pingtest.I get 0% packet loss.Then I hook up to the wireless,about 5 feet from the router and run Pingtest and get a 0% packet loss.I then go in the next room,about 20 feet away run Pingtest and the results are all over the place...some tests come back 0% packet loss,some tests 30% packet loss and everything in between.Finally I lose connectivity altogether.
I repeat the process and get the same results.
Meanwhile the 6 year old D-link router(b/g only) works fine anywhere in the house,although with a consistent 5% packet loss.
The wireless-n routers are supposed to have superior signal strength even with b/g card devices.
What should I do next?