E 4200 wireless signal problem

I've bought a E4200 router because of it's "maximum performance". With the normal settings i have a wireless range of maximum 10 m in the building. after 5m I've got a low signal.
I tested a cheap Netgear-router, which had the same range as the E4200 a 125 Euro.
Is my E4200 broke or is it just a bad buy? The settings are standard (that shouldn't be the problem, I guess!?)

I live in an area where all the neighbors use the 2.4Ghz band. The signal strength at 2.4Ghz is very good throughout my house but the throughput of the router is poor because of the number of users on that frequency. If two devices are transmitting on the same channel when there is a transmission conflict, the transmissions stop and must be restarted which reduces the throughput. In other words with more users on the 2.4 band there will be more retries no matter what the signal strength.
I tried the 5Ghz band and discovered that none of the neighbors use it. Great! But the 5Ghz signal strength drops off quickly. Initially I had the router on the first floor at one end of the house with the SmartTV (which has a WiFi capability) on the second floor bedroom at the other end of the house. If I selected the 5Ghz band, the TV could not receive enough signal to connect. With the 2.4 Ghz band the signal strength was good but the throughput was low and internet video was jittery.
As an experiment I moved the router to the center of the basement on a table. I configured it as a 5Ghz Access Point (bridge mode). I used the router provided by the ISP for routing the hardwired ethernet connections. I now have good signal strength at 5Ghz everywhere in the house. The distance from the router to the TV is about 12 feet less than when the E4200 was on the first floor. And there is more wood flooring and walls between the router and the TV.
I believe the signal pattern of the E4200's antennas' is likely a vertical cone pattern. In other words signal strength seems weaker if the router is on the same level as or at a steep angle to the router. But if the router is below or above the recieving device then a stronger signal is received. Of course this is conjecture based on my experience playing with the location of my router in my one case.
Steve

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Hello,
I am sorry if posting on an old thread is wrong on these forums, but I'm new here so I hope you will forgive me.
Anyway, I have the same problem here, my wireless from my Linksys E2000 router NEVER works. I've tried the same things and I have also tried to change the Advanced wireless settings, none of these things worked.
When I unplug the energy cable from my router for ~15 secs, I sometimes can connect to a Wireless signal, this signal remains for about 30 seconds and is then gone again. This happens even if I'm standing right next to my router.
I have no idea what the problem is, even I find this story very unbelievable, but I have tried everything I could and still we never have Wireles...
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Try these troubleshooting steps:
A] With the help of Cisco Connect Software (if at all you have installed the router with the help of this software)
          1] Open the software and go to the option which says "Router Settings"
          2] Then click on the option which says "Advanced Settings" which will take you to the router's configuration page.
         3] On that same setup page reduce the MTU value to 1400 from Auto
         4] Then go to the Wireless tab, keep network mode as mixed,
For Channel Settings of 2.4 GHz you can make Channel Width to 20 MHz only and Channel to 6, 9, 11..
B] If you haven't installed Cisco Connect then you can log on to the router's user interface using it's default IP address in the browser which is 192.168.1.1 and type in 'admin' as the password leaving the username field blank. This will take you to the router's web interface and then follow steps as mentioned above to make the changes.
Secondly avoid using any other wireless devices like cordless phones, microwave oven etc nearer to the router. Update the drivers for the wireless card of the wireless computer. Then check the wireless connection status.

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I am having trouble with the wireless signal in my son's room. It is only about 20ft from the airport. Do some frequencies travel through walls better?

Distance is not the issue here, but obstructions likely are.
In general, 5 GHz singals are really only useful in the same room as the wireless router, or if you have line of sight between the wireless device and wireless router.
2.4 GHz signals are much stronger, and penetrate walls and ceilings better, but unfortunately this band is very susceptible to wireless interference from other electronic devices, like cordless phones, BlueTooth devices, and other wireless networks in the area.
How many walls between the AirPort Extreme and the center of the other room?
How are the walls constructed?
Do you know if the type of insulation used on the wallboard or fiberglass included metal foil?

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My 24" iMac doesn't seem to like the new router very much. Half of the time it can't find the router, half of the time it finds it with very low signal and can't connect to it due to connection time out error. My iPhone seems better, but sometimes I can only see two bars even when I put it on top of the router. PS3 keep loses connection when on wireless.
The PS3 is only 4 meters away from the router, and the iMac is only 1.5 meters away. There is nothing in between these devices apart from me and I am NOT fat at all.
The router is siting on the floor against a wall whereas iMac and PS3 are on a table next to it. I believe any normal wireless devices should operate fine within such short range.
Meanwhile those devices are working fine with Apple's Airport Express before it was replaced by this new router. My iPhone can even do App Store update in my car parked at the ground floor car park, while the Airport Express was at exactly the same place where the router is now, in my flat up at 16th floor!
Setting wise, everything under wireless setting is left as factory default, apart from the security setting which was set to be WPA2 personal.
From what I've experienced, I think this is a faulty device. I just need someone from Linksys to confirm this for me.
Cheers
PS. Wired connections are fine.

Sorry scrooge, I can't log in to the forum for a few days due to keep getting servlet errors when I click the login button.
Anyways, I've changed the channel to 8 with 20MHz because there were three wireless network on channel 11 already. Then the problem seemed solved. But I'm just been curious and correct me if I'm wrong, the 20/40MHz mix setting was operating at 40MHz as I can see it was using two channels 6,1 but unfortunately those two are both also been occupied.
To me, it seems like the router was only trying to stay on three channels 1,6 and 11. I know that those three channels are real "CLEAN" channels but shouldn't the router try to use other overlapped channels as well, when those three are obviously occupied?
I didn't try the beacon interval or Fragmentation/RTS Threshold settings, because I think those settings can only provide a slight advantage over others who are sharing the same channel, and they don't actually solve the conflict problem.
Cheers

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Look at iOS Troubleshooting Wi-Fi networks and connections http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1398
Additional things to try.
Turn Off your iPad. Then turn Off the wireless router & then back On. Now boot your iPad. Hopefully it will see the WiFi.
On your iPad go to Settings > General > Reset > Reset network settings and see if that enables you to connect.
If none of the above suggestions work, look at this link.
iPad Wi-Fi Problems: Comprehensive List of Fixes
http://appletoolbox.com/2010/04/ipad-wi-fi-problems-comprehensive-list-of-fixes/
 Cheers, Tom

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Just to add to Scott's post, I would like to say "Nice hotel". And this is it. The walls in the hotel are made out of concrete blocks, I guess? In some cases the walls are thick enough to affect the propagation of wireless signals per floor.
I would also agree with Scott's recommendation that if you want to have guest enjoy your wireless facility, then you need to move the AP away from the hall and into the rooms. Depending on how your management sees the importance of guest wireless, I would recommend you stick an AP per two adjoining rooms. Should you find the need to do wireless voice, the APs in each room should be strong enough to cover the hall.
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Now I know that I probably have a new IP address because of the cable company switching the boxes but it was working fine with the other box, now there isn't a signal to be had on it!
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My brother gave me his old Powerbook G4 which has Airport installed (10.4.x). It picked up a neighbor's unprotected wireless signal in his apartment, then picked up the wireless signal in the Atlanta airport -- no problem.
But when I returned home the G4's Airport won't pick up the wireless router's signal in my house (with the router just a few feet away).
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CRMDVM -- Thanks for the helpful info -- you are probably right on both counts:
The apartments where I picked up a signal is in an "old folks" apt. complex, meaning the router I was picking up was probably old -- compatible with the G4 lineage. And the Atlanta airport probably has a wireless system to allow the vast number of old and new computers that people carry to connect.
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Message Edited by dgold on 04-11-200704:54 PM

dgold!
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