My Acer Aspire 5349 W7/64 machine has been losing bars on the signal strength for a while now, occasionally disconnecting.
In the same room as the router it's 35M, pretty much what I always used to get, over ethernet 55M but in the next room over wifi it's usually 1-2M but sometimes as high as 17M. My netbook and phone both agree that wifi in the next room should be 35m at least, so it's a problem with the laptop?
So I swapped out the Intel Centrino N100 adapter for an N6205 (as this is more readily available than the older N100) and it works but same problem with speed, 1-2 bars signal strength and usually 1m download speed.
It's not like I've recently started using the laptop in a walk in safe or anything, o why has my speed degraded but only on this laptop?
In the same room as the router it's 35M, pretty much what I always used to get, over ethernet 55M but in the next room over wifi it's usually 1-2M but sometimes as high as 17M. My netbook and phone both agree that wifi in the next room should be 35m at least, so it's a problem with the laptop?
So I swapped out the Intel Centrino N100 adapter for an N6205 (as this is more readily available than the older N100) and it works but same problem with speed, 1-2 bars signal strength and usually 1m download speed.
It's not like I've recently started using the laptop in a walk in safe or anything, o why has my speed degraded but only on this laptop?