A friend of mine has been complaining regularly about a fluctuating signal to his all-round wireless devices. I know many have complained vigorously about the routers that BT have supplied to there customers over the years, and they haven't been great for WiFi reception and User satisfactory. Having personally witnessed this myself, with the Bt Home-Hub 2.0, an updated model of the router he currently has (Bt Home-Hub 1.5), I am putting his problem down to the router itself being old and to a poor quality. Can't personally say that i am an expert with Wireless networking, so I'd like feedback from you guys please. I thought I'd just topic this thread and leave it open for discussion to see what you guys think. Please reply
Could be interference from other wireless networks. Or even other electric devices, power tools, microwaves have all given me issues in the past. If any of you have an Android phone, download Wifi analyser. Superb app which shows all networks in the area, how strong they are, what channel they are on etc. This might help in finding the least populated channel, switching the wireless channel could help a great deal
I have a Homehub 2.0 and the wireless signal barely penetrates into the room directly above the router. I can't be bothered to take it apart and mod the antenna, but I believe it's possible to do.
This isn't massively helpful to the problem, but if it's one of the original white hubs, kill it. With fire. I wish I had years ago. No end of problems with them.
