Ideapad U410: Improve Wifi range?

Hi,
with my new Ideapad U410 I recognize large differences comparing to my thinkpad edge concerning the range of wifi.
Is it possible to improve this?
maybe with an other wifi nic?
greetings

Hi FastDun, welcome to the forums,
sorry you haven't received a reply as quickly as you would have liked, but this is a peer to peer forum it can take some time for the right person to come along with the right answer; forums in general usually require a little patience.
That said, it sounds to me as though you have a possible problem with a firewall software. There are a few posts in the last week where it seems McAfee has been the cause of the problem, happened also to a friend of mine.
Can you connect using safe mode with networking? If so and you can't connect under normal Windows operation this would confirm a software firewall is the culprit in which case I would suggest uninstalling and then reinstalling the software after a new start.
edit; typo
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