<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 3:27 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vasco.nevoa@sapo.pt">vasco.nevoa@sapo.pt</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi all.<br>
Now that you mention this, I think the problem is Hardware based.<br>
I've bought an Asus Eee 901 :D, and now I have a means of comparison<br>
in terms of WiFi reception.<br>
My conclusion is that the Neo FR's wifi sucks.<br>
Example1:<br>
- my home AP has WPA; sitting 2 meters away from it, the FR show 50%<br>
signal strength. Okay, you can say that's too close and they are<br>
"shouting" at each other, causing signal corruption. Very well, I take<br>
it 10 meters away, behind a couple of normal walls. The signal<br>
strength drops all the way, right down to 5%, which is pretty<br>
unusable. The Eee901 has 100% signal strength in the vicinity of the<br>
AP, and behind those walls shows 30%.<br>
Example2:<br>
- at work, the Eee901 picks up 4 weak networks, the strongest one at<br>
35% strength and joins (no security) without problems. The FR picks up<br>
only the stronger one at 8%, and it cannot join it.<br>
<br>
This has convinced me that either the wifi on the FR has serious<br>
hardware problems, or the software is misguiding it. Anyway, it needs<br>
serious attention.<br>
Has anyone filed bugs on this wifi problem?<br>
<br>
Vasco.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>You're doing better than me. I was getting a 35% signal strength from my wifi router (Linksys RangePlus) at the same distance. My laptop showed the signal strength to be 'excellent'.<br>
<br>Now that I think of it, I got better performance when I had set the FR down next to the router.<br></div>