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Weird wifi problem

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  • 30-10-2012 12:14am
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    talkingpj
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    I wonder if anyone can help me with problem. When I have my wifi router plugged down stairs I can not get a wifi signal in the room directly above it upstairs. Though when I run a telephone cable all the way upstairs the wifi works perfectly downstairs. How can this be it makes no sense to me. I don't have any other wireless devices that could be disrupting the signal. If there is any expert out there please help.


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    MadsL
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    talkingpj wrote: »
    I wonder if anyone can help me with problem. When I have my wifi router plugged down stairs I can not get a wifi signal in the room directly above it upstairs. Though when I run a telephone cable all the way upstairs the wifi works perfectly downstairs. How can this be it makes no sense to me. I don't have any other wireless devices that could be disrupting the signal. If there is any expert out there please help.

    What's the floor made of? Anything that would disrupt the signal? Friend of mine tearing his hair out in an old hotel - turned out the old lead pipes had been encased in concrete. No signal getting through that.


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    talkingpj
    Registered Users Posts: 77 ✭✭talkingpj


    I thought it must be because of concrete floor but its weird how it works when the router is in the master bedroom to the living room directly blow but not vice versa


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    MadsL
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    talkingpj wrote: »
    I thought it must be because of concrete floor but its weird how it works when the router is in the master bedroom to the living room directly blow but not vice versa

    Ah, you must have a 802.11h router, the h is for heavy - the signal deflects down because of the heavier radio wave signal to electropotential growth ratio.

    Turn it upside down and try it then. ;)


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    agricamera
    Registered Users Posts: 31 ✭agricamera


    talkingpj wrote: »
    I wonder if anyone can help me with problem. When I have my wifi router plugged down stairs I can not get a wifi signal in the room directly above it upstairs. Though when I run a telephone cable all the way upstairs the wifi works perfectly downstairs. How can this be it makes no sense to me. I don't have any other wireless devices that could be disrupting the signal. If there is any expert out there please help.

    Have you tried turning the router 90 degrees / upside down?

    The aerial is probably directional

    Imagine it like a doughnut shape - ie. most of the signal goes out towards the sides, and less is pushed up and down.

    By the sounds of it most of your signal is pushed sideways + down, and very little is pushed directly up.


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