[Franglais]

Ever tried walking away from your router carrying our mobile or iPad or whatever to see how far you can go before you're out of range and lose the connection?

I can't try that out cos I live on the 4th floor and can't float......

Just wondering how far out you can go (without getting funny looks from neighbours, etc)

[Stig]

1) It's walking, not waking
2) why don't you just go down the stairs and find out?

[cnbcwatcher]

I've taken my iPod Touch outside the door while it's connected to the Wifi and it works standing at the front of the house, but by the time I get to the end of the road I no longer get a signal. It also works if I'm sitting in the car outside the house. I've used my 'pod in the car some mornings while waiting for my dad as he drives me in and out of university every day. Never walked around outside with my Mac though

[drw1963]

Is waking the new walking?

[psionic]

Originally Posted by drw1963

Is waking the new walking?

I blame the Zombie genre....

[Staunchy]

I can get to the beer garden of the pub across the road (which is where I am now).

[alan1302]

Originally Posted by drw1963

Is waking the new walking?

I thought it said something else

[cnbcwatcher]

Originally Posted by alan1302

I thought it said something else

You'd better visit Specsavers then

[alan1302]

Originally Posted by cnbcwatcher

You'd better visit Specsavers then

I am due a visit there

[archiver]

Originally Posted by Staunchy

I can get to the beer garden of the pub across the road (which is where I am now).

Lol, I bet you checked that before you bought the house.

[1saintly]

Originally Posted by alan1302

I thought it said something else

like what for example
Have you been the pub with Staunchy

Originally Posted by Staunchy

I can get to the beer garden of the pub across the road (which is where I am now).

Originally Posted by archiver

Lol, I bet you checked that before you bought the house.

Well they say location location location...

[pfgpowell]

Originally Posted by drw1963

Is waking the new walking?

No walking is the new waking.

[RobinOfLoxley]

My router, in the living-room, hard up against a radiator, is fine out past the dining room and into the Conservatory and patio.

Speed drops a bit.
Brick in-fill walls in my 1930s semi. I must be lucky or have a good wireless router.

[zx50]

Originally Posted by Franglais

Ever tried walking away from your router carrying our mobile or iPad or whatever to see how far you can go before you're out of range and lose the connection?

I can't try that out cos I live on the 4th floor and can't float......

Just wondering how far out you can go (without getting funny looks from neighbours, etc)

No, I've not tried doing this. You've got me curious now though.

[max99]

https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...YW5hbHl6ZXIiXQ..

Useful for quickly checking signal strength and dead spots in and around the home. Even more useful for checking channel conflicts with neighbour's routers.

[archiver]

Originally Posted by max99

https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...YW5hbHl6ZXIiXQ..

Useful for quickly checking signal strength and dead spots in and around the home. Even more useful for checking channel conflicts with neighbour's routers.

That looks great. Thanks. Google Play is new to me. Intro film/advert is clever:

https://play.google.com/about/

[AnywhereButHome]

I can't even go upstairs without it dropping out constantly and slowing to a crawl (my net connection is slow as hell anyway without the wireless making it worse). I detest my router.

[noise747]

with my old router I could get a couple of houses down the road or across the road and then it would fade off, with the new one when I got it on full power I can get across the road and down a little allyway or about 6 houses down.

But my new router is now set on it's lowest power output, but it still goes outside the house.

[Hotelier]

Originally Posted by Stig

1) It's walking, not waking

Oh thanks. We'd never have known it was a typo and he meant 'walking' if you hadn't pointed it out to us.

[RobinOfLoxley]

Inssider is a good channel tool for seeing what your neighbours are on (and finding an empty space for yourself).

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I hate the v2 flat frequency responses though.

Inssider v1 had nice 'sine' wave responses, looks so much better. Can still be found if you hunt for half an hour on Google but it doesn't really matter unless you are bothered.

[zx50]

Originally Posted by Hotelier

Oh thanks. We'd never have known it was a typo and he meant 'walking' if you hadn't pointed it out to us.

The funny thing is, mistakes have been made in some of the posts that are criticising/mocking them.

[myromeo]

I can get to about half way down my back garden on my router before it drops off. I added a second wireless access point at the back of my house and now I can watch the signal strength drop 3,2,1 then pop back up at 3