[2008.9] Wifi very unreliable

Nishit Dave stargazer.dave at gmail.com
Wed Oct 1 14:23:09 CEST 2008


On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel at free.fr> wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 17:36 +0530, Nishit Dave wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel at free.fr>
> > wrote:
> >         On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 16:58 +0530, Nishit Dave wrote:
> >
> >
> >         > All this discussion does not help if you realize that even
> >         after
> >         > placing the FR *next* to the blooming router, you get
> >         reported a
> >         > signal strength of 65%.  What does the hardware expect,
> >         building the
> >         > router *inside* the FR?
> >
> >
> >         Note that interferences may weaken an otherwise perfectly good
> >         signal.
> >         So the proximity isn't always synonymous with good signal
> >         strengh.
> >
> >                Xav
> >
> > No?
>
> Well, the closer you are, the better the signal is.
> But in my building, there are many other wifi networks. And in the
> evening, when they are all in use, I get a worst signal even when near
> my AP, whereas e.g. during the night it's better. At least I seem to
> have observed that.
>
> Have you used Occam's Razor on that?
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