![]() The suggestion to upgrade to an AX200 is a good one - hopefully it will give you a more consistent signal. The Wireless card in your build is only 2.4GHz in any case, and not a particularly good one. A varying signal strength is ok if the lowest strength is acceptable - so varying from say, -60 to -62 would likely be ok, though signal strength alone is not the only factor in determining the quality of a connection.Ģ.4GHz penetrates walls and ceilings much better than 5GHz, so if you're struggling with 2.4GHz then 5GHz will be no better. You want that signal strength to be constant - if you can manage a constant -62 you should be ok, though if you can get it better (lower numbers) that will help too. Your -62 to -76 represents a BIG drop in signal strength from acceptable (-62) to pretty awful (-76). The signal strengths you report (-62 to -76) are in dBm (decibels per milliwat) and lower numbers are stronger signals (the signal strength doubles every 3dBm). If there are just two hotspots on 2.4GHz channel 6 there (lucky you!) then switch your router to either channel 1 or channel 11 and see whether that helps. The next question then is: is the recommendation definitely to replace the wifi card, or would it be better to add/install a wifi booster to my wifi router instead? Or both? it is not faulty (and I'm not going to have to return the PC to PC Spec). Inssider software allows you to discover the details of the WiFi network around you and see. I have Virgin broadband as well not sure exactly what speed, but I don't think the broadband is the limiting factor at the moment (but could check on that).Īnyway, the combined conclusion appears to be that the internal 802.11n card that came with the PC is not sensitive enough to receive a sufficient signal where I am now and that that is a property of that type of card itself, i.e. Download inSSIDer software from techspot/downloads/5936- inssider. Gavras, just seeing your new message and trying to answer that as well here, so this may become a bit garbled. That 5 GHz signal must be on the boundary of being detectable here. Funny thing right now is that, according to inSSIDer, the 5 GHz CH 44 signal seems to have disappeared and I'm now connected to the 2.4 GHz CH 6 signal. With inSSIDer, you can inspect your Wi-Fi and surrounding networks, scan and filter hundreds of nearby access points, troubleshot the competing access points and clogged Wi-Fi channels, and more. I get the impression that it isn't brilliantly fast but at at least it is pretty reliable and gives me a signal. Click to expand.Sorry all, I probably should have mentioned in my system spec that the actual wifi adapter that I am using at the moment is an external USB adapter 'Realtek 8811CU Wireless LAN 802.11ac USB NIC'.
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