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I seem to have developed a blind spot in my house as far as my Wifi connection to my laptop is concerned. For the last three months since getting WiFi installed, my laptop has sat on the butcher-block/kitchen island in my kitchen and I have had perfect reception. For the last three or four days, the speed on the internet has been down to a snails pace. I did a test download of Firefox and was only getting 7kb a second, moved about 2 metres right and the speed went up to 250+ kb a second. Now I know that the easy solution is to move my router, but I am more interested as to why I have all of a sudden developed a blind spot. All the other places that I use my laptop are fine (you just don't want to know where I am typing this right now ). Has anyone got any ideas. Nothing has changed in my house, the router is in the same place since day one. No other wireless stuff is being used.

Thanks

Matt

Maybe the antenna on the router has been moved slightly, try re-orienting it perhaps. A metal can/object near the antenna blocking the signal?

Is your WIFI network secured or is your neighbor looking at you moving your laptop around and laughing as he downloads stuff on your internet bandwidth?

Maybe the antenna on the router has been moved slightly, try re-orienting it perhaps. A metal can/object near the antenna blocking the signal?

Is your WIFI network secured or is your neighbor looking at you moving your laptop around and laughing as he downloads stuff on your internet bandwidth?

All is secure and nothing has changed as far as the router is concerned. It was one day fine and the next slow.

Matt

Perhaps the channel is busy now or at times. Try a channel change in the wifi settings.

I found out what the problem is/was. I have MSN running in the background (I have relatives all over the world). In my kitchen, it would appear that either it is a blind spot or MSN is taking a lot of bandwidth even when running in the background. Once I go off line, I am back to normal without moving the computer. No great problem, I now go off line to surf........no chance of getting pestered by relatives when trying to catch up at SimV

Matt