On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 3:27 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all. > Now that you mention this, I think the problem is Hardware based. > I've bought an Asus Eee 901 :D, and now I have a means of comparison > in terms of WiFi reception. > My conclusion is that the Neo FR's wifi sucks. > Example1: > - my home AP has WPA; sitting 2 meters away from it, the FR show 50% > signal strength. Okay, you can say that's too close and they are > "shouting" at each other, causing signal corruption. Very well, I take > it 10 meters away, behind a couple of normal walls. The signal > strength drops all the way, right down to 5%, which is pretty > unusable. The Eee901 has 100% signal strength in the vicinity of the > AP, and behind those walls shows 30%. > Example2: > - at work, the Eee901 picks up 4 weak networks, the strongest one at > 35% strength and joins (no security) without problems. The FR picks up > only the stronger one at 8%, and it cannot join it. > > This has convinced me that either the wifi on the FR has serious > hardware problems, or the software is misguiding it. Anyway, it needs > serious attention. > Has anyone filed bugs on this wifi problem? > > Vasco. >
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'. Now that I think of it, I got better performance when I had set the FR down next to the router.
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