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Wireless problem on my new netbook
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Hi everyone,
I just bought a new netbook (it's a Samsung N140), and it's lovely but it has a small problem connecting to the internet. When I am in the same room as the router, it's fine and I'm happy enough, but as soon as I'm outside the door it disconnects. This isn't a massive problem for me when I'm at home but I'm about to go to uni and I'm pretty sure I can't ask the college to move the router into my room...
If anyone has any ideas, that would be grand. It's not a problem with the network, because the other computers in the house all pick up networks from our neighbours but this one doesn't. We've spoken to O2 and they don't know, and at the moment my dad won't let me call the tech support that came with my laptop because it's an 0870 number (sigh).
So.....?
I just bought a new netbook (it's a Samsung N140), and it's lovely but it has a small problem connecting to the internet. When I am in the same room as the router, it's fine and I'm happy enough, but as soon as I'm outside the door it disconnects. This isn't a massive problem for me when I'm at home but I'm about to go to uni and I'm pretty sure I can't ask the college to move the router into my room...
If anyone has any ideas, that would be grand. It's not a problem with the network, because the other computers in the house all pick up networks from our neighbours but this one doesn't. We've spoken to O2 and they don't know, and at the moment my dad won't let me call the tech support that came with my laptop because it's an 0870 number (sigh).
So.....?
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I think it's most likely that the wifi device of this netbook isn't "strong" enough to find the router. This might be normal for it or it could just be faulty, but you wouldn't know that without speaking to a technician (or sending an e-mail).
Of course it might be the other way around: The router isn't strong enough to reach other rooms. Which would mean that other routers would work fine.
Sammy's "contact us" page - http://www.samsung.com/uk/info/contactus.html
All about 0330 numbers - https://numberstore.com/view/0330-numbers
The other PCs being able to detect your neighbors wireless network doesn't really prove much about the range of your own wireless network, but if you Netbook can detect these more remote networks it would prove that the Netbook's wireless card is good.