I just switched over to an SX66 from an Axim X30 (624Mhz) and loving the converged life.
I've had very few, minor problems but the one that really bothers me is the signal strength of the wifi connection.
In my house, from my bedroom with the Dell, I was able to get a great signal to surf with. However, with the Siemens I don't get connected at all. :x I almost have to be within 20 ft of the router (Belkin) in order to connect and then I do connect. It's not a question of speed, only distance from the router.
Also I was in a hotel last week when I bought the Blue Angel. I had the Axim with me at the time. The Axim had a great signal and I was able to retrieve emails.... The BA did not get any signal.
I am using a sotfware called Wifi companion and use the proper WEP settings but it only connects within 20 feet.
Is this as good as it gets???
Please advise!!
Thanks in advance,
Larry
To some extent, the limited range of the SX66 is due to its design; however, 20 ft sounds a bit extreme. In my experience, the range is a bit better than that -- I've picked my neighbor's WiFi more than once, so that suggests a range of at least 50 ft.
One thing that might help is updating your ROM firmware. Customized SX66-friendly upgrades can be downloaded from http://home.comcast.net/~sx66-blueangel/.
My XDA2s will only pick up the signal from my linksys router in the main rooms of my house. If I go into the conservatory (about 20 feet away) I get nothing. My laptop will pick it up ouside some 30 meters away.
From what I've read in these forums this is about average. Something to do with the antenna position inside the device.
EDIT: Right now I'm sat in my bedroom 5 feet above my wireless router in the room below. My signal strength is 50%.
EDIT 2: I just switched the setings from 'best battery' to 'best performance' and the signal strength dropped to around 33%. Wierd.
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I happen to live in an area where I seldom get a signal stronger than 60% outside my home. Within my home, I run between 10% and 30% signal. Due to this I tend to get a lot of dropped calls. I have reported this "valley" in my city as being in a weak signal area for AT&T. Most of it began with 3G. I have now resolved that I should purchase a signal amplifier with an omni antenna that can be installed in my attic that would have about a 35-40 foot cable running to the inside unit. As I understand it, that should closely resemble an outside signal.
Anyone have any suggestions on home cell phone amplifiers that will handle multiple calls simultaneously? It obviously is not totally an AT&T issue because I have several friends on differing networks that have the same problem in my house.
Any help would be appreciated.
OK, Sprint was nice enough to send me one of these. I got it hooked up last week and can't seem to figure out how to stay connected to the damn thing. It's installed at my office because I'm sorta in a basement and the Sprint signal is really poor, usually about -110 dB. When the phone finally "sees" the Airave, the signal rockets up to around -60 dB, and it stays there. If I then go out, however, and return a few minutes later, I have to wait all over again for it to start working. It sometimes takes one or two hours before it finds the signal. The device is about six feet from my desk, so I know it's not a range issue.
TLDR: How do I get and stay connected to the Airave?
On my EVO, sitting right next to my N router, I can get maybe 9-10 mbps downstream. Meanwhile, my laptop can get 22 mbps.
Is this normal for the phone to max out at 9-10 mbps or am I doing something wrong?
** If this is a stupid question, please bear with me as I don't know much about the electronics of wifi on phones. Please explain rather than flame
Upon doing further research on this, I can see that wifi reception on the EVO is a major issue. In the same room my laptop is at full bars, my EVO shows no bars at all. This is a powerful router and I can't get more than 20 feet away without losing signal significantly.
I have noticed I am running on Channel 2. Would I do better if I changed channels? From what I have read only, people are saying that other phones such as the iPhone 3GS have twice the wifi range as the EVO.
Just performed interesting test.
These wifi routers shoot signal in all directions. As a test, I create an aluminum foil parabolic mirror (crude but effective) and put it under and behind my router. I then held the phone 4 feet from the router and ran speedtest.
Results:
WITH FOIL MIRROR:
11396 mbps(d)
1044 mbps(u)
WITHOUT FOIL MIRROR:
9117 mbps(d)
1033 mbps(u)
The up speed in both was about the same as that is due to my EVO beaming back to the router. However, the surprising part was that my downstream speeds increased by almost 25% with the mirror in place.
THE MORAL OF THE STORY:
If you have a wireless router that is situated in a corner or along a wall of your house, create a parabolic "radar dish" using tin foil and place it between the router and the wall and see if you wifi speed and reception does not improve.
** UPDATE:
I live in a pretty big house. The router is in my upstairs office which is the opposite end of the house from my living room. Prior to creating this "radar dish" I had zero wifi reception in the living room. With the "radar dish" I now have 1 out of 3 bars in the living room and am getting around 5 mbps downstream.
I am impressed that such a simple fix could make such a difference.
Hi guys,
We've just setup our chromecast network. Now with 1 or even 2 chromecasts in the network, everything runs smooth. But if we switch to a bigger network with 3 or more chromecasts, the connection is really hard or won't even happen at all. Anyone experienced this as well? The Wifi is new and quite strong (with additional routers on the first floor, so the wifi shouldn't be the problem).
Thanks for the reply
This is a limitation of WIFI. The more devices you have on a wifi, less bandwidth you will have available. WIFI protocol is using air time allocation protocol because it can talk only with one device at the same time. More devices you have active, more times it will switch between them to deliver all the packages requested. If you have wifi booster or extenders, I would recommend you to grab them all, smack them with a hammer, put them in water, take them out, dry them in the microwave oven, burn them with a torch and trow them in the garbage because that is what they are. Extenders ads latency and packet loss and also is reducing your bandwidth in half before you even have a device on. Do it yourself or contact a professional to install UNIFI from UBNT or similar products. Huge fan of their gear. If you have it properly installed and set-up(not just plugged in) you wont have any problems with any devices not just Chromecast.
BTW, strong WIFI doesnt mean anything. Your wifi is as strong as the weakest device. You can have a wifi that transmits 10 miles, if your other device transmits back only 30ft, it will be 30ft max wifi range even if at 300ft it shows full bars. The best thing to do is add a bunch of AP with the transmit power on the lowest. Keep in mind that wifi 2.4 has only 3 true channels that wont overlap: 1. 6 and 11. If you set them all the same channels they will hurt them self with their own noise floor. If you properly set them up with a spectrum analyzer, to be right at the limit, you could make them all same channel and do cool things like zero-handoff. Performance WIFI requires knowledge and proper set-up not just plug and go.
So I was getting great wifi signal all 50ft away,
Until I replaced my battery by myself, it was a easy process, it took me 10mins and I was done.
I booted up my tablet and I put it to charge and when I started to use it I saw my wifi signal was very poor,
Like I'm 7ft away from the router and I'm getting 2-3 bars and when I'm in my room, about 22ft away from the router, where i used to get 2-4 bars I'm now getting 0-2 bars. Even right now I'm like 10ft away from the router and I'm getting 0-2 bars and it's pissing me off so bad.
And where is the wifi antenna located on the n5100 because the internet is no help.
I'm running CM13 rom but I never had any internet problems before.
Help me and thanks.
I would try performing a hard factory reset on your device and see if that helps.