wifi affected by room size?

[Spartan Erik]

I currently have my gateway/access point in my living room giving a signal to my computer wirelessly. If I move my gateway/access point to a smaller room in the house (closer to my computer) will my connection become worse?

also, later this weekend, ill need help configuring the wifi on a computer that just arrived today

 

[Jake]

i would not think so, mines in the basement and i am 2 more stories above it and i still get a perfect signal with 4/5 bars. its a "Very Good" connection, if your using the windows wi-fi connetion.

 

[Spartan Erik]

lol just from one side of my house to the other (living room to my room), my signal is low and sometimes very low.. you must have really powerful wifi haha

 

[Jordan K]

lol just from one side of my house to the other (living room to my room), my signal is low and sometimes very low.. you must have really powerful wifi haha

Or maybe your household/the area you live in has lot's of interference?

 

[Spartan Erik]

Or maybe your household/the area you live in has lot's of interference?

only things that could possibly interfere are the cordless phones; im not sure what frequency they operate on since they're quite old

im going to go shopping for a wirless usb adapter and ill get it all set up tonight and find out what happens

 

[Jordan K]

You could have outside interference aswell if you live in a dense area.

 

[03moscropl]

you could change the channel for 11 to another one in the wifi settings, also chek if there are any other wifi signals we have 7, i kniow they do not interference with each other but it is good to test!

 

[Conor]

Check that you have it all secure too...people might be clogging up your network by 'stealing' your internet signal.

 

[Spartan Erik]

Check that you have it all secure too...people might be clogging up your network by 'stealing' your internet signal.

no problem ive got 128-bit encryption
and a hardware + software firewall

i finally got this all figured out! my wifi is working great and my gateway/AP is doing fine

admins can close!