LBMTist
03-01-2012 08:00 AM (14 days ago)
I have an HP Pavilion g7 1150us notebook. OS is Windows 7 64-bit. I can pick up my own router through an interior wall in my home, from about 8 ft, plus I can pick up my neighbor's router from 30 ft or so.

I go to visit my parents, who do not have internet, but I could always get my sister's router from about 80 ft, and even my brother's router from about 50 yards with my 8 year old Dell laptop using an external antenna. My HP will not find either one those routers now, unless I'm within 30-40 feet of them.

Is the Dell's ability to get wifi signal that much better than the new HP's. That is unbelieveable to me. I was looking forward to my new HP laptop and being able to find their signal without the homemade external antenna, plus a much faster computer, but boy have I been disappointed. Can someboby tell me if this is just the norm for HP computers, and if so what computer has the better wifi capability or can I do something to my HP to help boost the wifi capability. I'v seen the post on switching the wires on the card, but I'm afraid to try that. Any ideas, please. Thanks.
daveunix
03-01-2012 09:59 AM (14 days ago)
Easy. The WiFi cards from Broacom have wose sensitivity. HP use long cables and that means signal loss. You can't do naything with that.
Yes, I found my old Toshiba had more sentive WiFi card (Atheros chip).....
LBMTist
03-01-2012 11:08 AM (14 days ago)
Not what I wanted to hear, unfortunately. Thanks for the help.